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Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective

By: Peter E. Quint

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Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective

By: Peter E. Quint

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 constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.

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Routledge

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1134107412

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9781134107414

The Imperfect Union

Constitutional Structures of German Unification

By: Peter E. Quint

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The Imperfect Union

Constitutional Structures of German Unification

By: Peter E. Quint

In the mid-summer of 1989 the German Democratic Republic-- known as the GDR or East Germany--was an autocratic state led by an entrenched Communist Party. A loyal member of the Warsaw Pact, it was a counterpart of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), which it confronted with a mixture of hostility and grudging accommodation across the divide created by the Cold War. Over the following year and a half, dramatic changes occurred in the political system of East Germany and culminated in the GDR's "accession" to the Federal Republic itself. Yet the end of Germany's division evoked its own new and very bitter constitutional problems. The Imperfect Union discusses these issues and shows that they are at the core of a great event of political, economic, and social history. Part I analyzes the constitutional history of eastern Germany from 1945 through the constitutional changes of 1989-1990 and beyond to the constitutions of the re-created east German states. Part II analyzes the Unification Treaty and the numerous problems arising from it: the fate of expropriated property on unification; the unification of the disparate eastern and western abortion regimes; the transformation of East German institutions, such as the civil service, the universities, and the judiciary; prosecution of former GDR leaders and officials; the "rehabilitation" and compensation of GDR victims; and the issues raised by the fateful legacy of the files of the East German secret police. Part III examines the external aspects of unification.

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Princeton University Press

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1400822165

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9781400822164

Living Without Philosophy

On Narrative, Rhetoric, and Morality

By: Peter Levine

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Living Without Philosophy

On Narrative, Rhetoric, and Morality

By: Peter Levine

Drawing on implications from ethics, theology, law, politics, and education, this book argues that we can decide what is right by describing particular cases in detail, without the aid of ethical theories and principles.

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SUNY Press

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0791438988

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9780791438985

The Imperfect Union

Constitutional Structures of German Unification

By: Peter E. Quint

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Constitutional Structures of German Unification

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0691086567

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Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective

By: Peter E. Quint

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Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective

By: Peter E. Quint

The book is the first full-length English language treatment of the civil disobedience of the West German Peace Movement in the 1980s and the resulting trials of some of its members in the German Constitutional Court. The book uses these events and critical cases to analyze the German Constitutional Court as a crucial institution of government, and it also places the outcomes of the cases at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.

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1134107420

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Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

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Living Without Philosophy

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Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

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