There is no supreme constitution

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Constitutionalism -- Introduction -- The core characteristics of constitutionalism -- Normativity -- the commitment to justice -- Fundamental (higher) law -- The consensual basis of the rule of law -- customary law-abiding conduct -- Limited government -- diffusion and balance of power -- the idea of the mixed constitution -- public office -- Chapter 2 -- Statist-individualist Constitutionalism -- Introduction -- Statism -- paving the way to statist constitutionalism

The establishment of statist-individualist constitutionalism -- The nine essential beliefs of statist-individualist constitutionalism -- State-based positive law, more specifically the formulations of the Constitution, is omnipresent -- The Constitution is rigid and actually supreme -- The Constitution is formulation-driven and has a formal-static character -- The supreme value that is placed on the formulations -- the written words of the constitutional Document -- Pre-political -- The trias politica and the independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the judiciary

The preoccupation -- fixation -- with micro theory (and the statist-individualist approach to interpretation) -- The twosome consortium of the state and the individual -- state sovereignty and abstract universal, individual human rights -- The state is anti-communitarian and anti-pluralist -- Statist-individualist constitutionalism's three key mechanisms -- Supremacy proclamations, entrenchment and conformity mechanisms, andstrict amendment requirements -- The trias politica, checks and balances and the independence andimpartiality of the judiciary -- Bills of individual rights

Chapter 3 -- Statist-individualist Constitutionalism in Post 1994 South Africa -- Introduction -- The key mechanisms of statist-individualist constitutionalism in the South African constitutional order -- Supremacy proclamation, entrenchment and conformity mechanisms and strict amendment requirements -- Trias politica, checks and balances and the independence and impartiality of the judiciary -- The (justiciable) Bill of Rights -- The statist-individualist belief system in the South African constitutional discourse -- Chapter 4 -- There is no Supreme Constitution -- Introduction

Law's dual dimensionality -- Conceptual clarification: legal norms and legal norm-formulations -- The basic thesis of the factual requisite (or dimension) of law -- The doctrine's faith-strengthening language -- Exposition of the factual requisite of law and critique of the doctrine -- Substituting law arising from the behaviour of public office-bearers -- Lapsed law resulting from the behaviour of public office-bearers -- Substituting or lapsed law arising from the behaviour of(segments of) the public -- Still-born law, including still-born constitutional law -- Conclusion

Chapter 5 -- The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is not Supreme and its Rights Not Entrenched

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