Civil Disobedience and the German Courts The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective |
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| Author:
| E. Quint, Peter |
| Series title: | UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-134-10742-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge Cavendish |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $52.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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 andnbsp;constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.