00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009952 20210823023823 0010-0821000006 ta 210823################|##########|#|## 9781315184555 342 342 LOV c Loveland, Ian D. Constitutional Law / Ian D. Loveland 1st Edition London : Routledge, 2017 504p : <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315184555">e-book</a> This title was first published in 2000: This volume of essays explores a number of fundamental constitutional law questions in a variety of historical and jurisdictional contexts. The contributions focus on the role to be played by courts and legal principles in the resolution of major political controversies and on the progressive development of constitutional jurisprudence in countries sharing a broadly common law legal tradition. The guiding theme pervading the collection is an attempt to measure the legitimacy of judicial (in-)activism when courts are faced with difficult political choices on matters such as slavery, internment, racism and voting rights and radical economic policies and are also confronted with the requirement to attach concrete meanings to such abstract concepts as the separation of powers and the rule of law. Constitutional law