| Civil Disobedience and the German Courts: The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective Contributor(s): Quint, Peter E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415443539 ISBN-13: 9780415443531 Publisher: Routledge Cavendish OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: 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 these constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Constitutional - Law | Civil Law |
| Dewey: 342 |
| Series: University of Texas at Austin Studies in Foreign and Transna |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 300 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 these constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history. |
