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Comment: Constitution as a “power map”.

  • UPSC 2001
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  • Social Movements

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Ivo D. Duchacek (Power Maps: Comparative Politics of Constitutions, 1973) read constitutions as maps of power. They chart where authority lies, how it is divided and limited, and by what routes it passes between rulers and ruled. Like any map, a constitution can also be schematic, out of date or deliberately misleading. The metaphor is…

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  • What the Map Records
  • Map and Territory
  • The Indian Map Read Against Practice
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