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Constituent power and independence processes: problems and perspectives in the light of the Catalan experience [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2018
This paper focuses on the potential reconfiguration of constituent power in the context of multinational States. It takes the view that sub-state claims pose relevant challenges to the traditional vision of constituent power as a unitary and monolithic
Andrea Romano
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Constituent Power in Socialist Regimes

open access: yesGerman Law Journal
The twenty-first century has witnessed the global resurgence of constituent power—the power to make a constitution—in both academic debate and the practice of constitutional adjudication and design.
Ngoc Son Bui
doaj   +3 more sources

The Idea of Direct Democracy in the Constitution of the First Republic of Georgia [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Constitutional Law, 2021
One century has passed since the adoption of the Constitution of Georgia of 21 February 1921. Until now the 1921 Constitution remains as a document, which simply plays the role of the mythological foundation of legitimation, leading to the thwarting of ...
Vakhtang Menabde
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Between Constituent Power and Constituent Authority

open access: yesOxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2021
Abstract This review article offers a critical appraisal of Joel Colón-Ríos’s Constituent Power and the Law. It argues that while Colón-Ríos’s book is undoubtedly a major advance in scholarship on constituent power, it leaves the reader wanting more illumination in its treatment of the relationship between the descriptive and the ...
George Duke, Elisa Arcioni
openaire   +1 more source

The Democratic Legitimacy of Constituent Referendum(s) in Constitution-Making Process Within The Scope of Turkish Constituent Referendum Experiences

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2022
The referendum experiences of each state vary according to their democratic background, development, and welfare level. Accordingly, it becomes hard to adopt a uniformed approach towards the issue and necessitates questioning the democratic value of each
Bagceci Hamide
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Populist constitutionalism and constituent power

open access: yesGerman Law Journal, 2019
Constituent power is a helpful component of constitutional theory because it provides a conceptual and potentially normative explanation of how a new constitution can be made without any existing legal authority to do so.
Oran Doyle
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SO(3) invariance and covariance in mixtures of simple bodies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We adapt to mixtures the procedure of invariance of external power under the action of SO(3) to deduce balance equations. The two classical axioms about the growths of momentum and moment of momentum are derived with the help of a rule on the structure ...
Capriz   +12 more
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Collective Action, Constituent Power, and Democracy: On Representation in Lindahl’s Philosophy of Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This contribution develops two objections to Hans Lindahl’s legal philosophy, as exhibited in his Authority and the Globalization of Inclusion and Exclusion.
Fossen, Thomas
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Extracting chemical energy by growing disorder: Efficiency at maximum power [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We consider the efficiency of chemical energy extraction from the environment by the growth of a copolymer made of two constituent units in the entropy-driven regime.
Christian Van den Broeck   +4 more
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Why Have Constitutional Courts Been so Important for Democracy in Central Europe (…And So Hated by Those in Power)?

open access: yesLaw: Journal of the University of Latvia, 2018
The contribution reacts to various thoughts about the present state of constitutionalism in the V4 countries. The author argues that the constitutional court, an institutional check on majoritarian decision-making, has been an indispensable component of
Kamil Baraník
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