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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Culture

Lucas Lixinski

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 November 2024

Subject(s):
Minority groups — Religious rights — Economic, social, and cultural rights

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. There are two core ways of thinking about culture in the realm of comparative constitutionalism. The first, inward-looking, way is how culture impacts on constitutionalism, and the connected debates about constitutional culture. The second, outward-looking, way focuses on how culture is shaped by constitutional text. 2. In relation to the first way, when thinking of culture in comparative constitutional law one can think of culture as shaping a specific legal tradition which informs and shapes constitutional law (Post 4). Culture, in this sense, becomes the raw...
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