TY - BOOK ID - 25344318 TI - A sociology of constitutions : constitutions and state legitimacy in historical-sociological perspective PY - 2011 SN - 9781107610569 9780521116213 052111621X 9780511895067 1107610567 1139097350 1107212847 1139103172 9786613341761 1139100718 1139101374 1139098683 128334176X 0511895062 1139099353 9781139101370 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Theory of the state KW - Constitutional history KW - Constitutional law KW - Social aspects KW - Constitutional limitations KW - Constitutionalism KW - Constitutions KW - Limitations, Constitutional KW - Public law KW - Administrative law KW - Constitutional history, Modern KW - History KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Constitutional law - Social aspects KW - Constitutional history. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25344318 AB - Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy. ER -