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In the modern world, the constitutions of nation states have come to be seen as the key guarantors of human rights. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the national constitution became the basis of the political order in most countries around the world. The extent to which the constitution provides effective protection for the rights of citizens has thus become a major determinant of the political life of nations, including the nations of the Asia-Pacific region. (First paragraph of introduction). ; This conference was supported by the generosity of the Japan Foundation Asia Centre, AusAID, the Daiwa Foundation for Asia and Oceania, the Myer Foundation and The Australian National University's National Institute for Asia and the Pacific and the Humanities Research Centre.

Sovereignty is a legal and political concept in which, as Ferrajoli points out, the problems and aporias of the theory of law and the State converge. The idea of sovereignty, even though it is already known in the Middle Ages by authors such as Beaumanoir and Marino de Caramanico, in its meaning of "suprema potesta superiorem non recognoscens" goes back to the moment of appearance of the European national States and to the weakening, in the threshold of the modern age, the idea of universal legal order that medieval culture had inherited from Roman civilization. ; La soberanía es un concepto al mismo tiempo jurídico y político en el que confluyen, como señala Ferrajoli, los problemas y aporías de la teoría del derecho y del Estado. La idea de soberanía aun cuando ya es conocida en la Edad Media por autores como Beaumanoir y Marino de Caramanico, en su acepción de "suprema potesta superiorem non recognoscens" se remonta al momento de aparición de los Estados nacionales europeos y al debilitamiento, en el umbral de la edad moderna, la idea de ordenamiento jurídico universal que la cultura medieval había heredado de la civilización romana.

This publication explores human rights in the context of constitution making. It notes the important role of participatory processes which should be designed to ensure that consultations with a wide variety of interest groups and vulnerable parts of the populations take place when a new constitution is drafted. It also focuses on what human rights and fundamental freedoms should be included in a constitution, including civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights. In addition, it addresses how the rights of women, children, the disabled, minorities and indigenous peoples can be expressed in a new constitution. Examples from over fifty different constitutions are used to illustrate how these rights can be expressed. The publication is designed for drafters of future constitutions, as well as to all those who want to ensure that human rights are protected constitutionally.

Las constituciones contemporáneas contemplan la protección de los derechos fundamentales no solo de sus ciudadanos sino de cualquiera que se encuentre en su territorio. En este trabajo se analiza normativa y sobre todo jurisprudencia comparada en relación con esta cuestión. Concretamente en mecanismos internacionales de protección de derechos humanos y en los sistemas constitucionales de Estados Unidos, Canadá, Sudáfrica e Irlanda. ; Contemporary constitutions provide for the protection of fundamental rights not only for citizens but for anyone in its territory. This paper discusses legislation and comparative jurisprudence on this issue. Specifically that in international mechanisms for the protection of human rights and the constitutional systems of the United States, Canada, South Africa and Ireland.

A decade ago Professor Henkin remarked that "there has been almost no examination at all of the relation between international human rights and the American Constitutional version of human rights." Since then he has done much to fill this gap in the literature, as has, more recently, a distinguished barrister/scholar from Great Britain. Nevertheless, it may be useful, in this symposium celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, to survey both the contribution it has made to the development of international human rights law and the extent to which the latter has influenced the evolution of U.S. constitutional law.

Contemporary constitutions provide for the protection of fundamental rights not only for citizens but for anyone in its territory. This paper discusses legislation and comparative jurisprudence on this issue. Specifically that in international mechanisms for the protection of human rights and the constitutional systems of the United States, Canada, South Africa and Ireland. ; Las constituciones contemporáneas contemplan la protección de los derechos fundamentales no solo de sus ciudadanos sino de cualquiera que se encuentre en su territorio. En este trabajo se analiza normativa y sobre todo jurisprudencia comparada en relación con esta cuestión. Concretamente en mecanismos internacionales de protección de derechos humanos y en los sistemas constitucionales de Estados Unidos, Canadá, Sudáfrica e Irlanda.