The Norwegian Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe. Its bicentenary in 2014 has inspired the analyses in this volume, where contributors focus on the Constitution as a text to explore new ways of analyzing democratic development. This volume examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries. The textual focus enables new understandings of the framers' negotiations and decisions on a democratic micro level and opens new international and historical contexts to understanding the Norwegian Constitution. By synthesizing knowledge from different realms - law, social sciences, and the humanities – Writing Democracy provides a model for examining the distinct textual qualities of constitutional documents.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Interdisciplinarity and Stylistic Conventions
- Introduction - The Norwegian Constitution as a Text
- Part I: Embarking on the Matter
- Chapter 1 - The Thing That Invented Norway
- Chapter 2 - The Changing Meaning of “Constitution” in Norwegian Constitutional History
- Chapter 3 - The Many Textual Identities of Constitutions
- Part II: Transnational Conversations
- Chapter 4 - The Norwegian Constitution and the Rhetoric of Political Poetry
- Chapter 5 - Constitution as a Transnational Genre
- Chapter 6 - Discursive Patterns in the Italian and Norwegian Constitutions
- Part III: Historical Transformations
- Chapter 7 - Timing the Constitutional Moment
- Chapter 8 - The Norwegian Constitution and Its Multiple Codes
- Chapter 9 - Norwegian Parliamentary Discourse 2004–2014 on the Norwegian Constitution’s Language Form
- Part IV: Freedom of Expression
- Chapter 10 - Article 100 and the Evolution of a Public Opinion Text Culture in Denmark-Norway 1770–1799
- Chapter 11 - To Speak What the Hour Demands
- Chapter 12 - Scholarly Texts’ Influence on the 2004 Revision of the Norwegian Constitution’s Article 100
- Appendix A: Constitution for Kongeriget Norge
- Appendix B: The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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