Civil Disobedience and the German Courts : The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective PDF
by Peter E. Quint
Part of the UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law series
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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 constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.
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- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:17/12/2007
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- ISBN:9780203933008
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:17/12/2007
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- ISBN:9780203933008