TY - BOOK AU - Pryor,Judith TI - Constitutions: writing nations, reading difference SN - 9780415431927 (hardback : alk. paper) PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Routledge-Cavendish KW - Constitutions KW - United Kingdom KW - Constitutional law KW - Language KW - Commonwealth countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008376.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2007008376-d.html ER -