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020			_a9781107124097 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aKTL2620 _b.F69 2016
090			_aKTL2620 _b.F69 2016
100	1		_aFowkes, James, _d1984- _eauthor _9124744
245	1	0	_aBuilding the constitution : _bthe practice of constitutional interpretation in post-apartheid South Africa / _cJames Fowkes.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom : _bCambridge University Press, _c2016.
300			_axxi, 392 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge studies in constitutional law
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 356-383) and index.
505	0		_aTaking reality (legally) seriously -- Voting rights, politics, and trust -- The role of the court : standard conceptions -- The role of the court : constitution-building -- LGBTI equality -- Democracy -- Socio-economic rights -- Equality, eviction and engagement.
520			_a"This revisionary perspective on South Africa's celebrated Constitutional Court draws on historical and empirical sources alongside conventional legal analysis to show how support from the African National Congress government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's landmark cases, which are often applauded too narrowly as merely judicial achievements. Standard accounts see the Court as overseer of a negotiated constitutional compromise and as the looked-to guardian of that constitution against the rising threat of the ANC. However, in reality South African successes have been built on broader and more admirable constitutional politics to a degree no previous account has described or acknowledged. The Court has responded to this context with a substantially consistent but widely misunderstood pattern of deference and intervention. Although a work in progress, this institutional self-understanding represents a powerful effort by an emerging court, as one constitutionally serious actor among others, to build a constitution"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	1	0	_aSouth Africa. _bConstitutional Court _9151964
650		0	_aConstitutional law _zSouth Africa _987064
650		0	_aConstitutional courts _zSouth Africa _981601
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