Unconstitutional essays /
Agabin, Pacifico A.
Unconstitutional essays / Pacifico A. Agabin. - viii, 266 pages 23 cm.
hence the title of the book. The essays here should therefore be taken more as briefs of an advocate rather than value-neutral doctrines strung together for a treatise. Like old wine in new bottles, the contents may take on a different color if viewed from a new perpective. This is a collection of papers and essays on political law written and delivered by the author in the last decade.The common thread that binds most of the essays here is the unholy connection between law and politics. Unlike love and marriage, politics and law cannot really exist apart from each other, or so the essays in this book imply, and thus it is an attempt to belie the popular notion that "political law" is a contradiction in terms considering that politics cannot be law, and vice-versa. Seen from the author's higher perspective, therefore, all law, specially constitutional law, is political
971-542-077-x
Constitutional law--Philippines.
KPM 1750 / .Ag12 1996
Unconstitutional essays / Pacifico A. Agabin. - viii, 266 pages 23 cm.
hence the title of the book. The essays here should therefore be taken more as briefs of an advocate rather than value-neutral doctrines strung together for a treatise. Like old wine in new bottles, the contents may take on a different color if viewed from a new perpective. This is a collection of papers and essays on political law written and delivered by the author in the last decade.The common thread that binds most of the essays here is the unholy connection between law and politics. Unlike love and marriage, politics and law cannot really exist apart from each other, or so the essays in this book imply, and thus it is an attempt to belie the popular notion that "political law" is a contradiction in terms considering that politics cannot be law, and vice-versa. Seen from the author's higher perspective, therefore, all law, specially constitutional law, is political
971-542-077-x
Constitutional law--Philippines.
KPM 1750 / .Ag12 1996
