Michel Rosenfeld - The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community

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The Identity of the Constitutional Subject

Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community

Michel Rosenfeld

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Rosenfeld, Michel, 1948
The identity of the constitutional subject : selfhood, citizenship, culture, and community /
Michel Rosenfeld.
p. cm.
ISBN 9780415949736ISBN 9780415949743
1. Constitutional lawSocial aspects. 2. Constitutional lawPsychological aspects.
3. Constitutional lawPhilosophy. I. Title.
K3165.R668 2010
342dc22 2009014424

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