Neha Bhuraney, Research Scholar, GNLU
ABSTRACT
The concept of constitutionalism, like almost all other social sciences concepts, has always been subject to or part of an evolutionary process. Therefore, we cannot point out any specific time or event that led to its creation or emergence, though a succession of such events may have led to shaping and acquisition of an image as an outcome of the totality of those events or processes. Generally, they are shaped in the context of paradigm shifts in social and political structures. It was some such shift that took place in the form of Russian Revolution of 1917 and its impact on other societies and political formations that the need to closely examine this vision of society and counter it for its weaknesses and drawbacks arose. It is as part of that process that two professors at the Harvard Law School individually engaged themselves in investigating and presenting a different version of the social and political vision of society through constitutional structures that prevailed in the United States and most other parts of the West. Between the two, while one was confined specifically to exploring the concept of constitutionalism, the other one discussed constitutionalism as part of a bigger constitutional and political design of society
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