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Constitutions and the struggle for political order: a study in the modernization of political traditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Saïd Amir Arjomand
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The constitutions of the last two centuries are monuments to an eminently modern enterprise: the reconstruction of the political order by rational human effort. Constitution-making is a deliberate attempt at institution-building at the fundamental level of laying down the normative and legal foundations of the political order. Framing a constitution always purports to be an act of foundation; an act intended to break with the past, and with the existing cultural and institutional traditions, in which principled discussions take the place of everyday horse-trading in politics.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , June 1992 , pp. 39 - 82
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1992

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