{"title":"Multi-Layered Constitutions","authors":"R. Masterman","doi":"10.1017/9781316716731.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.019","url":null,"abstract":"Examination of the state-centric dynamics of constitutions can only partially illuminate the multi-faceted characteristics of constitutional law. A statist focus often obscures both internal and external dimensions of constitutions themselves, and of the broader structures and patterns of governance that exist within and beyond nations. Either explicitly or implicitly, constitutions speak to the sub- as well as to the inter- and supra-national, and provide a lens through which obligations and pressures arising in each differing context might be reflected. Constitutions are, as such, inherently multi-layered.","PeriodicalId":313961,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124703192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constitutional Transplants","authors":"Gábor Halmai","doi":"10.1017/9781316716731.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.023","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the problem of how the transplant and borrowing of foreign constitutional law and international law can influence constitution-making processes and constitutional interpretation – state actions which are still considered sovereign. International law, especially international human rights laws, are of pre-eminent importance in this context since they are virtually by definition based on limitations on national constitutional law to assert internationally shared constitutional principles. In other words, the chapter seeks to answer the question of how far the process of the internationalization of (national) constitutional law has progressed; to what extent are the framers of constitutions and the courts that interpret constitutions willing to accept alien, foreign, or international principles and rules? What underlies the decision by the constitutional organs of certain states to accede to such constitutional migration, and the rejection of such migration by their respective counterparts in other countries?","PeriodicalId":313961,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123492443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"US Constitutional Law and History","authors":"Vicki C. Jackson","doi":"10.1017/9781316716731.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313961,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134003121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}