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The Theocratic Challenge to Constitution Drafting in Post-Conflict States

The emergence of a new legal order - constitutional theocracy, which is now shared in one form or another by dozens of countries in the developing world - provides important insights into the sociopolitical role of constitutionalism in predominantly religious settings. Regimes throughout the new world of constitutional theocracies have been struggling with these foundational quandaries, forced to navigate between cosmopolitanism and parochialism, modern and traditional meta-narratives, constitutional principles and religious injunctions, contemporary governance and ancient texts, judicial and …