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Spring 2015

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 30, Number 1

Categories: Spring 2015 | Political Science

A Monarchical Perspective on Constitucional Governance: H.S.H. Price Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein and The State in the Third Millennium

Alexander William Salter, Texas Tech University

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise30(1),2015,121–130AMonarchicalPerspectiveonConstitutionalGovernance:H.S.H.PrinceHans-AdamIIofLiechtensteinandTheStateintheThirdMillenniumAlexanderWilliamSalterBerryCollegeAbstractThispaperexploreskeyideasinconstitutionalpoliticaleconomybyanalyzingthewritingsofH.S.H.PrinceHans-AdamIIofLiechtenstein.Asahereditaryheadofstate,HisHighnesshassignificantpoliticalpower.However,theconstitutionandpoliticalinstitutionsofLiechtensteingiveeachelementofthegovernment—themonarch,theparliament,andthepeople—checksontheabilityoftheotherstobehavearbitrarily.ThroughexaminingHisHighness’sideasonconstitutionalgovernanceinhisrecentbook,TheStateintheThirdMillennium,thispaperoffersanewperspectiveonthebalanceofpoliticalpowernecessarytokeepstateactivitywithinitsappropriatebounds.JELCodes:H10,H77,P16Keywords:constitutionalpoliticaleconomy,democracy,federalism,monarchy,H.S.H.Hans-AdamII,Liechtenstein,oligarchy,selfdeterminationI.IntroductionHowshouldastatebeorderedifitsauthorityistoremainwithinwell-definedandnonarbitrarybounds?Whatistherelationshipbetweenconstitutionalcraftsmanshipandtheruleoflaw?Canconstitutionswithnondemocraticelements,andevenmonarchicalelements,beeffectiveatrestrainingmajoritarianandautocraticabuses?Eachofthesequestionsundergirdsaseparateresearchprojectwithinthefieldofconstitutionalpoliticaleconomy.Thisessayexplores,ratherthansettles,someofthesequestionsbyexaminingtheideasofH.S.H.PrinceHans-AdamIIofLiechtensteininhisrecentbook,TheStateintheThirdMillennium(2009).Liechtensteinanditsreigningprinceareaninterestingcasestudyforscholarsinterestedinconstitutionaleconomics.SincetheendofWorldWarII,Liechtenstein,atinystatewithapopulationof35,000,121

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Title	A Monarchical Perspective on Constitucional Governance: H.S.H. Price Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein and The State in the Third Millennium
Authors/Creators:	Alexander William Salter, Texas Tech University
Year:	2015
Volume:	30
Number:	1
Pages:	121 - 130
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	constitucional political economy, democracy, federalism, monarchy, H.S.H. Hans-Adams II, Liechtenstein, oligarchy, self-determination

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Salter, Alexander William / 2015. "A Monarchical Perspective on Constitucional Governance: H.S.H. Price Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein and The State in the Third Millennium." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 30(1): 121-130.