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dc.contributor.authorLanni, Adriaan M.
dc.contributor.authorVermeule, Cornelius Adrian
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-17T14:09:16Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationAdriaan M. Lanni & Adrian Vermeule, Constitutional Design in the Ancient World, 64 Stan. L. Rev. 907 (2012).en_US
dc.identifier.issn0038-9765en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10875736
dc.description.abstractThis paper identifies two distinctive features of ancient constitutional design that have largely disappeared from the modern world: constitution-making by single individuals and constitution-making by foreigners. We consider the virtues and vices of these features, and argue that under plausible conditions single founders and outsider founders offer advantages over constitution-making by representative bodies of citizens, even in the modern world. We also discuss the implications of adding single founders and outsider founders to the constitutional toolkit by describing how constitutional legitimacy would work, and how constitutional interpretation would be conducted, under constitutions that display either or both of the distinctive features of ancient constitutional design.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherStanford Law Schoolen_US
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dc.relation.hasversionhttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1747087en_US
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dc.titleConstitutional Design in the Ancient Worlden_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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dc.relation.journalStanford Law Reviewen_US
dash.depositing.authorVermeule, Cornelius Adrian
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dash.contributor.affiliatedLanni, Adriaan
dash.contributor.affiliatedVermeule, Cornelius


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