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Title Weimar : a jurisprudence of crisis / Arthur J. Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink, editors ; translated by Belinda Cooper with Peter C. Caldwell [and others]
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages)
Series Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 8
Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 8.
Contents Hans Kelsen -- Hugo Preuss -- Gerhard Anschütz -- Richard Thoma -- Heinrich Triepel -- Erich Kaufmann -- Rudolf Smend -- Hermann Heller -- Carl Schmitt
Summary This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law. Only two of these authors, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, have been published to any extent in English, but they and the others whose writings are translated here played key roles in the political and constitutional struggles of the Weimar Republic. Critical introductions to all the theorists and commentaries on their works have been provided by experts from Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States. In their general introduction, the editors place the Weimar debate in the context of the history and politics of the Weimar Republic and the struggle for constitutionalism in Germany. This critical scrutiny of the Weimar jurisprudence of crisis offers an invaluable overview of the perils and promise of constitutional development in states that lack an entrenched tradition of constitutionalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Constitutional history -- Germany -- Sources
Constitutional law -- Germany -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources
State, The -- History -- Sources
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Constitutional history
Constitutional law -- Philosophy
Politics and government
State, The
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933 -- Sources
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Sources
History
Form Electronic book
Author Jacobson, Arthur J
Schlink, Bernhard
LC no. 2021696826
ISBN 9780520929685
0520929683
0585389810
9780585389813
0520236815
9780520236813
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9781282357037
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9781597349918