Sovereignty's promise : the state as fiduciary

✍ Scribed by Fox-Decent, Evan

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 302
Series: Oxford constitutional theory
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Prologue. Hobbes and legal order --
Introduction. The state as fiduciary and the rule of law --
Seeking sovereignty --
Some objections --
Fiduciary relationships and the presumption of trust --
The duty to obey the law --
Judicial ambivalence to public judiciary duties --
Procedural fairness : a pandora's box of legality --
Administrative law as solicitude : reasonable decision-making --
The rule of law and human rights.

✦ Subjects

Sovereignty. Authority. Politische Philosophie. Rechtsphilosophie. Souveränität. SOVEREIGNTY. AUTHORITY. LEGITIMACY OF GOVERNMENTS. POLITICAL POWER.

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