Writing Democracy - 9781782385042

Citing the Norwegian Constitution as the oldest functioning constitution in Europe, Gammelgaard, Holmoyvik, and their expert contributors focus on practices connected with putting the Constitution into text, setting down the rules of government and human rights, and the interpretation of that document. There are 12 chapters divided into four parts: embarking on the matter; transnational conversations; freedom of expression. Chapters are: the thing that invented Norway; the changing meaning of “Constitution” in Norwegian Constitutional history; the many textual identities of constitutions; the Norwegian Constitution and the rhetoric of political poetry; constitution as a transnational genre: Norway 1814 and the Habsburg Empire 1848-1849; discursive patterns in the Italian and Norwegian Constitutions; timing the constitutional moment: time and language in the Norwegian Constitution; the Norwegian Constitution and its multiple codes: expressions of political and legal change; Norwegian parliamentary discourse 2004-2014 on the Norwegian Constitution’s language form; article 100 and the evolution of a public opinion text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770-1799; to speak what the hour demands: framing the future of public speech at Eidsvold in 1814; scholarly texts’ influence on the 2004 revision of the Norwegian Constitution’s article 100. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)