دانلود کتاب Constitutional Culture: the Lessons of History and the Challenges of Time

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INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION ......................... 9 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION ..................... 13 CHAPTER 1. EPISTOMOLOGICAL NATURE AND SUBSTANCE OF THE NOTION “CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE” ....................... 20 1.1. Legal and philosophical perceptions of the notion “constitutional culture”............. 20 1.2. From Constitution to constitutionalism: the dialectics of the desired and reality ........ 41 CHAPTER 2. HISTORICAL ROOTS OF FORMATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE IN THE ARMENIAN REALITY OF THE CHRISTIAN PERIOD ............................ 57 2.1. The legal and political significance of the proclamation of Christianity as a state religion in Armenia ....................... 57 2.2. The constitutional role and significance of national ecclesiastical councils ................. 65 2.3. Legal charachteristics of canonical constitutions .................................................. 70 2.4. Typical features of constitutional culture in the pages of the Armenian legal-political thought ................................... 86 CHAPTER 3. CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE IN THE BACKGROUND FOR THE FORMATION OF RULE-OF-LAW, DEMOCRATIC STATE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF CONSTITUTIONALISM ............................... 114 3.1. Constitutional culture in the system of the contemporary European legal thought ................................................. 114 3.2 Manifestation of the nature and specifics of constitutional culture in the conditions of the Armenian new reality .......................... 129 3.3. Contemporary perceptions of pivotal values of the Constitution of the rule-of-law, democratic states ........................ 152 3.4. Main issues of the new stage of constitutional developments in the Republic of Armenia ............................ 172 CHAPTER 4. GLOBAL CHALLENGES OF GUARANTEEING CONSTITUTIONALISM ...................................... 186 4.1. Interreleations between statehood and constitutionalism .................................... 186 4.2. The new posture of supranational constitutionalism ........................................... 190 4.3. Guaranteeing of constitutionalism as a criterion of rule-of-law State .................. 192 4.4. Guarantees of constitutionalism in the Anglo-American and continental legal systems ................................................. 233 4.5. Constitutionalism at the crossroads of politics and law .......................................... 243 4.6. Constitutional roots of public concordance and tolerance ............................ 247 4.7. Main issues of constitutionalization of the social behaviour of the individual and political and public behaviour of state authorities ......................................... 249 4.8. Axiological nature and features of the national constitutionalism ................... 254 4.9. Main deformations of constitutionalism in the transformative social systems ............. 261 4.10. Axiological main issues of constitutional developments from the perspective of the contemporary challenges .................... 276 CHAPTER 5. THE IMPERATIVE OF GUARANTEEING THE SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION ..... 287 5.1. Contemporary requirements regarding constitutional review ..................................... 287 5.2. Trends of development for the systems of constitutional justice ................................. 319 5.3. Interpretation of the Constitution by the Constitutional Court ........................... 331 5.4. Settlement of disputes regarding constitutional powers as the guarantee for constitutionalism ...................................... 337 5.5. Precendential nature of the decisions of the Constitutional Court ............................ 345 5.6. New stage of international cooperation in the field of constitutional justice ............... 356 CHAPTER 6. CONSTITUTIONAL MONITORING AS A NEW QUALITY OF THE EXPRESSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL CULTURE ..................... 360 6.1. Organic link between the definitions “Constitution”, “constitutional culture”, “constitutionalism”, “constitutional monitoring” in the context of sustainable development .................................................. 360 6.2. Conceptual approach in introducing systemic constitutional monitoring .............. 382 6.3. Мain issues of constitutional monitoring in the conditions of social transformation ...... 385 6.4. ‘’Constitutional control’’ and ‘’constitutional monitoring’’: interrelation and manifestation of its essence .................. 387 6.5. Constitutional diagnostics as a mechanism for implementation of systemic constitutional monitoring .............................. 391 6.6. Constitutional monitoring for guaranteeing the rule of law ................... 398 6.7. Constitutional monitoring for ensuring functional balance of power .......................... 410 6.8. Constitutional monitoring and constitutional responsibility ................... 420 INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION: ROLE OF THE RULE OF LAW CHECKLIST IN THE SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL MONITORING /CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES/ ......................................... 427 APPENDIX I ................................................................................... 438 APPENDIX II .............................................................................. 454 SUMMARY ............................................................................. 479