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At a time when democratic government is under attack, Chibli Mallat offers a new definition of democracy: the necessary representation in government of citizens as 'members of historically subordinate groups', a concept first opened up by Michel Chiha (1891-1954) during his drafting of the Lebanese Constitution of 1926.
The book rests on two main research pillars: the first is a detailed historical and institutional examination of Levantine and Lebanese institutions, drawing on dozens of 19th and 20th century documents, including Chiha's constitutional papers. With unprecedented access to the Chiha Archive, Mallat constructs a world vision of Chiha through his writings and political positions which act as the background to his constitutional contributions. The second pillar examines the success and failures of an enduring Lebanese Constitution to advance this radically new view of majoritarian democracy, based on extensive research in political science and in constitutional law.
Contents
Expanded Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Transliteration
Abbreviations and Chiha-related Primary Sources
1. Orientation: Two Centuries of Institutional Communalism in Lebanon
Part I. Communalism and the Birth of Elections
2. The Birth of Representative Communalism - From Simqaniyya (1697) to the Beirut Consultative Council (1834)
3. The Entrenchment of Communalism and the Birth of the Electoral Principle (1840-1920)
Part II. The Lebanese Constitution of 1926
4. The Constitution of 1926: Reconstructing the Timeline
5. The Constitution of 1926: Structure and Inspiration
6. Building Constitutional Blocks: The Communitarian Straitjacket
7. Building Constitutional Blocks: Modern Constitutionalism
Part III. Chiha after the Constitution
8. Constitutional Developments
9. Chiha's Worldview
10. Chiha's Nation
Part IV. Constitutionalism and Group Representation
11. Lebanese Constitutionalism and the Political-Theological Middle East
12. Constitutional Frontiers: The Lebanese Constitution and the World
13. Democracy Redefined
14. Epilogue
General Bibliography
Index



