In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement -- fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe -- engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations. Civil Disobedience and the German Courts traces the historical and philosophical background of this movement and follows a group of demonstrators through their trials in the German criminal courts up to the German Constitutional Court -- in which their fate was determined in two important constitutional cases. In this context, the volume also analyzes the German Constitutional Court, as a crucial institution of government, in comparative perspective. The book is the first full-length English language treatment of these events and these constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.
| Autorius: | Peter E. Quint |
| Leidėjas: | Routledge-Cavendish |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2008 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 304 |
| ISBN-10: | 0415443539 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780415443531 |
| Formatas: | 216 x 140 x 16 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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