Download or read book The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Foley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually postponed. Abeyances are valuable, therefore, not in spite of their obscurity, but because of it.