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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Constitution making"”.
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Why Ratification? Questioning the Unexamined Constitution-making Procedure
… on ratification--the submission of a draft constitution to the people for their approval in an up or down vote--and has two central aims. First, it explores the mechanics, current usage, and possible effects of ratification and argues that despite its intuitive nature and ubiquity, it is in …
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Constitution Making in Illinois: A Comparison of Two Conventions, 1920 and 1970
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An examination of the relationship between public participation in constitution making processes and the objective to write a democratic constitution : the case of Zimbabwe's 2010-13 constitution making exercise
… the SADC and East Africa region have embarked on constitution making exercises as part of the democratization process. There is a strong emphasis that such constitution making processes must be based on public participation. An assumption is often made that public participation in constitution …
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Participatory constitutional reforms vs. realization of equal representation of men and women in the parliaments: a study of Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania
In this thesis, the constitution-making legal frameworks in Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania are examined in relation to how they facilitated public participation in line with Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 and Article13 of the African Charter on Human and …
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Affirmative Action Reconceived: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Precommitments to Group Preferences for Racial Minorities and Women
… other is well documented in the literatures on constitutionalism, constitution-making, comparative politics and racial/ethnic relations. However, the manner in which this conundrum manifests in a state’s acceptance or rejection of affirmative action has been under-discussed. Traditional …
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Public participation in the drafting of the 2013 Zimbabwean Constitution: The role and significance of the populace
The defining moment of Zimbabwean constitutional reform came in 2008 after the disputed and violence riddled elections of 2008 when the three main political parties entered into a transitional Government of National Unity and were tasked with the establishment of a new constitution which was …
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Democracy and communications : an analysis and assessment of the public participation programme of the Constitutional Assembly
… Participation Programme in the South African constitution-making process. The central premise of the thesis is that there is a link between participatory lawmaking processes and legitimate democracy. Accordingly, the drafting of the constitution and other law requires public participation in …
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"We'd go home if we could" : political xenophobia, citizenship and human rights of asylum seekers and refugees : Cape Town - a pilot study
… in the dual contexts of the new rights-based Constitution and the recurrence of political xenophobia. More specifically the thesis investigates their respective conceptions of (human/constitutional/legal) rights, citizenship and political xenophobia. The findings suggest that although the …
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Paradiplomacy and Protodiplomacy in World Practice: A Comparative Case Study of Conflict and International Development in Quebec, Catalonia and Kurdistan
… functions of territoriality, security, constitution making, international agreements and even “hard-policy” engagement, clearly seen in the Kurdish regions. Comparing the key intrinsic case: the quadri-regional Kurdish paradiplomacy (between Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran) with Quebec and …
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The Conservative Power and the debate on constitutional guardianship in the United States and France, 1776-1815
… the first complete account of a theory of constitutional guardianship, referred to as the ‘conservative power’ (pouvoir conservateur) by its proponents, which played a central role in both American and French Revolutionary constitution-making from 1776-1815. Focusing primarily on the …
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Personal wealth in South Africa: Facts about its distribution and the forces behind its redistribution
… in South Africa and their behavior in the Constitution making process that is still underway. A model of optimal behavior by political groups is constructed, and it is found that the majority government in South Africa will act rationally if they opt for majority rule in a unitary state. …
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Constitutional Development in Zambia, 1890-1975
… to get away from history. For instance the constitution of the Zambia Independence Act and the Zambia Independence Order had to be preserved is so far as this was not inconsistent with the new order. Even more important perhaps is the fact that although the one party-state constitution …
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Persuasion as a social heuristic: A rhetorical analysis of the making of the constitution of Namibia
… on the rhetoric used during the drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Namibia. The thesis will offer a framework for understanding negotiations in terms of distinct and coherent rhetoric. Primary sources for this thesis consist of five volumes of the Hansard of the Standing Committee on …
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Fiji and the franchise : a history of political representation, 1900-1937
… to explain the nature of the Crown Colony constitution of Fiji. Hence it concentrates on the demands of the inhabitants of the Colony and the response of the rulers. The problem that confronted the rulers was a complex one in that, they nad to deal with the conflicting aspirations of three …
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Fiji and the franchise : a history of political representation, 1900-1937
… to explain the nature of the Crown Colony constitution of Fiji. Hence it concentrates on the demands of the inhabitants of the Colony and the response of the rulers. The problem that confronted the rulers was a complex one in that, they nad to deal with the conflicting aspirations of three …
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The negative effects of the liberals' usurpation of th Green Movement : a study in the demise of the liberal paradigm
… is engaged in the politics of transformation and constitution making green issues are gradually taking a back seat. The nature of our transition to democracy concentrated largely on the transfer of political power without due consideration to the other sphere of government upon which such …