How democracies control the military

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Kohn, Richard H ^a,b  

^a Department of History ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 18744433604     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1997.0060     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. It could be argued that in constitutional systems, the "rules" are fixed in the written charter. Constitutions can be amended, however, and in democratic societies civilian courts interpret the laws and apply the constitution to specific cases and general situations. Constitutional practice changes over time.
2. Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil- Military Relations (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957).
3. Yehuda Ben Meir, Civil-Military Relations in Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 25.