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Unconstitutional essays / Pacifico A. Agabin.

By: Material type: TextTextQuezon City : University of the Philippines Press, 1996Description: viii, 266 pages 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 971-542-077-x
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KPM 1750  .Ag12 1996
Summary: 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.Summary: 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
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana KPM 1750 .Ag12 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000303286
Isagani R. Cruz Collection Isagani R. Cruz Collection Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center KPM 1750 .Ag12 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3IRC0000004238
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana KPM 1750 .Ag12 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000269742

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

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