Constitutions : writing nations, reading difference - Pryor, Judith, 1975- (New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007)
Constitutions : writing nations, reading difference -- Theorising constitutional texts --'In the name of god and of the dead generations' : proclaiming the Irish Republic --'The treaty always speaks' : reading the Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi --'Fracturing the skeleton' of the law : the Mabo decision and the re-constitution of Australia -- Conjuring spectres : location in the constitution of Britain in its post-imperial moment -- Re-reading constitutional texts.
Includes bibliographical references
Keywords: Constitutions -- United Kingdom; Constitutional law -- United Kingdom -- Language; Constitutions -- Commonwealth countries; Constitutional law -- Commonwealth countries -- Language