01895     2200265   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001900097041000800116082001100124084001700135100002800152245005400180260004500234300003600279520111900315650003601434650002901470650003001499990002501529990002501554990002501579990002501604INLIS00000000000922520221101111210  a0010-0520009225221101                |          | eng    a978-0674047662  aeng  a342.02  a342.02 JAC c0 aJacobsohn, Gary Jeffrey1 aConstitutional identity /cGary Jeffrey Jacobsohn  aCambridge, Mass. :bHarvard Press,c2010  axvii, 368 p. ; 25 cm. ;c25 cm.  aIn Constitutional Identity, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience—from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation’s past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own destruction, and manifests itself in various ways, as Jacobsohn shows in examples as far flung as India, Ireland, Israel, and the United States. Jacobsohn argues that the presence of disharmony—both the tensions within a constitutional order and those that exist between a constitutional document and the society it seeks to regulate—is critical to understanding the theory and dynamics of constitutional identity. He explores constitutional identity’s great practical importance for some of constitutionalism’s most vexing questions: Is an unconstitutional constitution possible? Is the judicial practice of using foreign sources to resolve domestic legal disputes a threat to vital constitutional interests? How are the competing demands of transformation and preservation in constitutional evolution to be balanced? 4aConstitutional law --Philosophy 4aLaw --Foreign influences 4aJacobsohn, Gary J., 1946-  a22297/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22298/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22298/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22297/MKRI-P/XI-2011