Pryor, Judith, 1975-

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.

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