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A Plea for a Hint of Empiricism in Constitutional Theory: A Comment on Cesare Pinelli's Constitutional Reasoning and Political Deliberation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Guillaume Tusseau

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Part A: Political Theory and Constitutional Reasoning
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German Law Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 8: Special Issue - Constitutional Reasoning , 01 August 2013 , pp. 1183 - 1194
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