Bills of rights / edited by Mark Tushnet. - Aldershot, Hampshire, England : Ashgate, c2007. - xvii, 406 p. ; 25 cm. - International library of essays on rights .

Acknowledgements. - Series preface. - Introduction. - Pt. 1: Bills of rights and democratic self-governance. - 1. Bill of rights -- A right-based critique of constitutional rights / Jeremy Waldron -- 2. Judicial review and democratic principles : two theories / D.J. Galligan -- 3. Accountability, liberty, and the constitution / Rebecca Brown -- Part II: Judicial enforcement of bills of rights. - 4. The new commonwealth model of constitutionalism / Stephen Gardbaum -- 5. Learning to live with the override / Lorraine Weinrib -- 6. The charter dialogue between courts and legislatures (or perhaps the charter of rights isn't such a bad thing after all) / Peter Hogg and Alison Bushell -- 7. Legislative invalidation, human rights protection and s 4 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act / Janet McLean -- 8. New forms of judicial review and the persistence of rights- and democracy-based worries / Mark Tushnet -- Pt. III: Legislative enforcement of bills of rights. - 9. Origin and scope of the American doctrine of constitutional law / James Bradley Thayer -- 10. Institutional design of a Thayerian congress / Elizabeth Garrett and Adrian Vermeule -- 11. Judicial review and the protection of constitutional rights / Wojciech Sadurski. - Name index.

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Human rights.
Civil rights.

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