Democracy and legal change
Melissa Schwartzberg.
- Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press 2009.
- xii, 228 p. 23 cm.
- Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.
Introduction : explaining legal change and entrenchment -- Innovation and democracy : legal change in ancient Athens -- Legislation and law reform in seventeenth-century England -- Fallibility and foundations in the U.S. Constitution -- Protecting democracy and dignity in Postwar Germany -- Conclusion : defending democracy against entrenchment.