Building the constitution: the practice of constitutional interpretation in post-apartheid South Africa
This revisionary perspective on South Africa's celebrated Constitutional Court draws on historical and empirical sources alongside conventional legal analysis to show how support from the African National Congress government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's landmark c...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This revisionary perspective on South Africa's celebrated Constitutional Court draws on historical and empirical sources alongside conventional legal analysis to show how support from the African National Congress government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's landmark cases, which are often applauded too narrowly as merely judicial achievements. Standard accounts see the Court as overseer of a negotiated constitutional compromise and as the looked-to guardian of that constitution against the rising threat of the ANC. However, in reality South African successes have been built on broader and more admirable constitutional politics to a degree no previous account has described or acknowledged. The Court has responded to this context with a substantially consistent but widely misunderstood pattern of deference and intervention. Although a work in progress, this institutional self-understanding represents a powerful effort by an emerging court, as one constitutionally serious actor among others, to build a constitution |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxi, 392 pages) |
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| DOI: | 10.1017/9781316403853 |
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xi
Table of South African Cases xiv
1 Introduction 1
A Beginning: Makwanyane Stories 6
Beyond Makwanyane 19
2 Taking Reality (Legally) Seriously 26
The Work of the Constitution-Building Court 30
Realism, Law and Karl Llewellyn 33
Strategy, Legal Legitimacy and Alexander Bickel 38
Dworkin, Ackerman and the Relevance of Political Activity to
Interpretation 41
3 Voting Rights, Politics and Trust 50
Rereading NNP 51
The Constitution-Building Court at Work: Structural Concerns in
NNP 56
Democracy and Trust 66
Epilogue to NNP 74
Consistency: NNP and the Rest of the Court s Voting Rights
Jurisprudence 81
Another NNP v. ANC 88
4 The Role of the Court: Standard Conceptions 95
The Intentions of the Drafters 96
Institutional Thinking during the Transition - the ANC 99
Institutional Thinking during the Transition - the NP and
Other Minority Groups 103
The Court as an Actor in an Elite Pact 110
Post-Apartheid Judging and Transformative Constitutionalism 121
Bridge-Building 126
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
5 The Role of the Court: Constitution-Building 129
The Constitution-Building Account and Newness 131
Infrastructure 133
The Public Status of Ideas 138
An Illustration: HIV/AIDS Discrimination 142
The Text and Its Questions: Constitution-Building as a Constitutional
Argument 147
Purposive Text and Results-Driven Constitutionalism 150
6 LGBTI Equality 156
The Emerging Public Status of LGBTI Equality in South Africa 156
The Two National Coalition Decisions: Criminalization and
Immigration Law 163
The Two Fourie Decisions: Same-Sex Marriage 168
Decisions to Decide, and Not to Decide: Family Law for
Unmarried Couples 178
7 Democracy 188
Doctors for Life 190
Extending the Lines: The Later Public Participation Cases 197
Promoting Democracy within Parliament and Local Government
Structures 208
UDM (2) and the Brief Life of Floor-Crossing 216
Epilogue to UDM (2) 227
8 Socio-economic Rights 233
Rights and Newness 233
Maximalism in Socio-economic Rights Cases: Grootboom,
PE Municipality and Joseph 242
Non-Intervention Decisions: Soobramoney, Nokotyana and
Grootboom 252
Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign 270
Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg 287
9 Equality, Eviction and Engagement 301
The Promise of Legislative Action: Masiya and Volks v. Robinson 303
Deferring into Space: S v. Lawrence and S v. Jordan 312
Meaningful Engagement: Adjusting the Constitution-Building
Equation 325
Engagement and Its Possibilities: From Eviction to Prince to the
Future 340
Conclusión 349
Bibliography 356
Index 384
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