A Grammar of Constitutionalism (Hardcover)

This book is devoted to the analysis of the origins and mechanisms of building the State – a symbol of a surprising growth of the human population despite the imperfect biological nature. It is written at the intersection of several disciplines. The demagogy of universal human rights today has placed the world on the brink of nuclear war. Standalone, not bound to anything, moral norms are paradoxically established beyond the specific framing jurisdictions of specific political cultures, and are used to establish the responsibility of the carriers of these particular jurisdictions and specific political cultures themselves, i.e. of the States. Does a man on a desert island have the natural right to the social security? The man himself needs neither the right to life, nor the freedom of conscience, nor the freedom of speech, as any right of any man makes sense only in interaction with another man. All these are principles of relations with their own kind, i.e. of relations in a group, and the understanding of group rights may vary, and such a group as "mankind" will arise only after the invasion of aliens