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, 2020 Recent social and political developments, including the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic state policies in Hungary and Poland, and the political climate in the rest of Europe have brought questions relating to the position and composition of ‘the people’ in constitutional democracies to the forefront.
Matilda Arvidsson +2 more
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, 2004 The concept of constituent power emerges alongside that of the modern documentary constitution. It expresses the conviction that the authority of the constitution rests on its having been drafted in the name of ‘the people’ who, through an exercise of ...
Loughlin, Martin
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Democratizing constituent power
Journal of Legal Philosophy, 2023 <p><span>This brief symposium contribution on constituent power contends that what often goes missing from constituent power theory is a sense of how the theory should be guided by democratic choices. Constituent power theory places the people themselves at the center of constitutional decision-making in a conceptual sense, yet often fails ...
Levy, Ron
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, 2018 This chapter argues that scholarly debates about constituent power presuppose a distinction between constituent power and constitutional form that is neither theoretically compelling nor practically illuminating. In contrast to constitutionalists, it argues that constituent power is inexhaustible, the revolution not being reducible to an event and thus
Nimer Sultany
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