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Militant democracy as it stands is not a general theory and practice of the protection of the constitution, but it can be perceived as a set of measures directed against radical emotionalism, a technique that may be relevant in all situations where emotionalism takes over the political process. Sajo considers militant democracy in a narrow, legalistic way as a set of bona fide preventive legal measures that place restrictions on rights and on the democratic process for the sake of democracy/constitutionalism. Adapted from the source document.

Cet article s'appuie sur les recherches réalisées en Hongrie depuis 1965 pour examiner l'impact du droit socialiste sur la conscience juridique des Hongrois. Les résultats révèlent des contradictions importantes. Il apparaît aussi que le processus de développement moral au sens de Kohlberg est entravé par les réalités de la vie quotidienne sous le régime communiste.

The Constitution was written to shape human behavior and affairs, and it does so by appealing to people's hearts, not only their minds. An interdisciplinary analysis sheds new light on the emotions that underlie constitutional law, with many cogent examples

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I Introduction -- Modem Constitutionalism as Interplay Between Identity and Diversity -- II The Rebirth of Constitutionalism -- A New Birth of Constitutionalism: Genetic Influences and Genetic Defects -- III Constitutionalism as Bridge Between Self and Other: The Politics and Legitimation of Constitution Making -- Constitutional Bootstrapping in Philadelphia and Paris -- Revolution and Constitutionalism in America -- Constitutional Powermaking of the New Polity: Some Deliberations on the Relations Between Constituent Power and the Constitution -- Dilemmas Arising from the Power to Create Constitutions in Eastern Europe -- IV The Identity of the Constitutional Subject and the Search for Authoritative Constitutional Meaning -- German Constitutional Culture in Transition -- Constitutional Identity -- Reactionary Constitutional Identity -- Toward a First Amendment Jurisprudence of Respect: A Comment on George Fletcher's Constitutional Identity -- Hermeneutics and Constitutional Interpretation -- The Constitutional Judge: Master or Slave of the Constitution? -- A Philosophical Reconstruction of Judicial Review -- v Freedom, Equality, Individuals, Groups, and the Struggle Between Identity and Difference -- Preferred Generations: A Paradox of Restoration Constitutions -- Free Speech and the Cultural Contingency of Constitutional Categories -- The Multicultural Self: Questions of Subjectivity, Questions of Power -- VI On Drawing Constitutional Boundaries Between Self and Other: The Role of Property Rights -- On Property and Constitutionalism -- Transitional Constitutions -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS