Understanding the relationship between the U.S. constitution and the conventional rule of recognition

dc.contributor.advisorKuçuradi, İoanna
dc.contributor.authorHimma, Kenneth Einar
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T21:18:38Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T21:18:38Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.departmentRektörlük, Rektörlüğe Bağlı Birimler, Maltepe Üniversitesi Yayınlarıen_US
dc.description.abstractLegal theorists specializing in constitutional theory have tended to regard positivism and other conceptual theories as irrelevant; the idea is that a theory of the concept oflaw cannot tell us anything that helps to solve substantive issues of constitutional theory. There is something to this complaint. A theory of the concept of law merely fleshes out the metaphysical implications of the social commitments governing use of the concept-term "law" - and tells us how to distinguishes something that is law from something that is not. But knowing how to do this does not seem to help answer the normative questions typically asked by constitutional theorists: it will not help answerthe question of how the constitution is properly interpreted orthe question of who should decide what the constitution means. About all an analysis of a concept can tell you is how to identify the things to which the concept applies, but our pre-theoretic understanding of the toncept is usually, by itself, enough to do this. Judges and lawyers do this all the time without having a worked out conceptual theory of law...en_US
dc.identifier.citationHimma, K. E. (2011). Understanding the relationship between the U.S. constitution and the conventional rule of recognition. Hukuk Felsefesini Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk Teorileri, İnsan Hakları ve Anayasalar. (s. 113-142). İstanbul: Maltepe Üniversitesi.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage142en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-975-6760-41-3
dc.identifier.startpage113en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/4997
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMaltepe Üniversitesien_US
dc.relation.ispartofHukuk Felsefesini Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk Teorileri, İnsan Hakları ve Anayasalaren_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryUluslararası Kitapen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.snmzKY05266
dc.subjectUnderstanding the relationshipen_US
dc.subjectU.S. Constitutionen_US
dc.subjectConventional rule of recognitionen_US
dc.subjectLegal theoristsen_US
dc.subjectA theory of the concept of lawen_US
dc.subjectThe concept of Validity Crileriaen_US
dc.subjectConceptual foundations of positivismen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding the relationship between the U.S. constitution and the conventional rule of recognitionen_US
dc.typeBook
dspace.entity.typePublication

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