Constitutions : writing nations, reading difference /
Judith Pryor
- New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007
- viii, 245 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references
Constitutions : writing nations, reading difference -- Theorising constitutional texts --'In the name of god and of the dead generations' : proclaiming the Irish Republic --'The treaty always speaks' : reading the Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi --'Fracturing the skeleton' of the law : the Mabo decision and the re-constitution of Australia -- Conjuring spectres : location in the constitution of Britain in its post-imperial moment -- Re-reading constitutional texts.
Constitutions--United Kingdom Constitutional law--Language--United Kingdom Constitutions--Commonwealth countries Constitutional law--Language--Commonwealth countries