00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004613 20221031050324 0010-0520004613 221031################|##########|#eng## 9780415431934 eng 342.09171241 342.09171241 PRY c Pryor, Judith Constitutions : Writing Nations, Reading Difference / Judith Pryor New York : Birkbeck Law Press, 2008 viii, 245 p. ; 24 cm Indeks : p. 241 - 245 p. 213 - 240 Can a nation have an unwritten constitution? While written constitutions both found and define modern nation, Britain is commonly regarded as one of the very few exceptions to this rule. Drawing on a range of theories concerning writing. Law and violence (from Robert cover to Jacques Derrida), Constitutions makes a theoretical intervention into conventional constitutional analyses by problematising the notion of a 'written constitution' on which they are based. Situated within the frame of the former British empire, this book deconstructs the conventional opposition between the 'margins' and the 'centre', as well as between the 'written' and 'unwritten', by paying very close, detailed attention to the constitutional texts under consideration. Constitutions argues instead that Britain's 'unwritten' constitution and 'immemorial' common law only take on meaning in a relation of difference with the written constitutions of its former colonies. These texts, in turn, draw on this pre-literate origin in order to ligitimate themselves.The 'unwritten' constitution of Britain can be located and dislocated in postcolonial written constitutions. Constitutional Law - Commonwealth Country 10326/ MKRI-P/ XI-2008 10327/ MKRI-P/ XI-2008 10326/ MKRI-P/ XI-2008 10327/ MKRI-P/ XI-2008 10327/ MKRI-P/ XI-2008 10326/ MKRI-P/ XI-2008