Canada and Israel in Comparative Constitutional Perspective: The (Sometimes Overlooked) Legal Historical Dimension of Globalization

Q2 Social Sciences

Global Journal of Comparative Law Pub Date : 2018-08-14 DOI:10.1163/2211906X-00702004

Athanasios Giocas

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Constitutional development in both Canada and Israel abounds with the enduring marks of historical globalization phenomena. For Canada, achieving a unified political formation through confederation related to reconciling French Canadian, British and aboriginal dynamics, each of which possesses its own globalized dimension. Constitutional development in Israel is equally multi-faceted. Not only the population within the state’s effective control was and remains diverse, Israel inherits (not without controversy) the biblically-inspired notion of the Jewish state as well as a religiously-grounded understanding of basic legal categories from another globalized franchise, the Ottoman Empire, all while purporting to maintain an unequivocal commitment to contemporary Western legal culture. In order to better recognize and integrate such phenomena within the broader process of constitutional development in both Canada and Israel, the article explores the viability of a hermeneutical framework based on the underlying moral bases of federalism, as facilitated by the institute of unwritten constitutionalism.

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比较宪法视野中的加拿大和以色列：全球化（有时被忽视）的法律历史维度

加拿大和以色列的宪法发展都带有历史全球化现象的持久印记。对加拿大来说，通过邦联实现统一的政治形态与调和法裔加拿大人、英国人和土著人的动态有关，每一种动态都有自己的全球化维度。以色列的宪法发展同样是多方面的。以色列不仅在国家有效控制下的人口过去和现在都是多样化的，而且继承了（并非没有争议的）圣经启发的犹太国家概念，以及对另一个全球化国家奥斯曼帝国基本法律类别的宗教基础理解，同时声称保持对当代西方法律文化的明确承诺。为了在加拿大和以色列更广泛的宪法发展过程中更好地认识和整合这些现象，本文探讨了在不成文宪政制度的推动下，基于联邦制潜在道德基础的解释学框架的可行性。

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Global Journal of Comparative Law Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： The Global Journal of Comparative Law is a peer reviewed periodical that provides a dynamic platform for the dissemination of ideas on comparative law and reports on developments in the field of comparative law from all parts of the world. In our contemporary globalized world, it is almost impossible to isolate developments in the law in one jurisdiction or society from another. At the same time, what is traditionally called comparative law is increasingly subsumed under aspects of International Law. The Global Journal of Comparative Law therefore aims to maintain the discipline of comparative legal studies as vigorous and dynamic by deepening the space for comparative work in its transnational context.