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Abstract The core meaning of constituent power resonates with many historical traditions of Indigenous political thought and practice. Indigenous peoples continue to exercise constituent power through the (re-)constitution of political orders at multiple scales of governance, from the local to the global.
Melissa S. Williams, Dale A. Turner
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Melissa S. Williams, Dale A. Turner
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Alchemising peoplehood: Rousseau’s lawgiver as a model of constituent power
History of European Ideas, 2021Eoin Daly
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Referendums and Constituent Power
Abstract Referendums are part of constitution-making processes in contemporary political practice in various contexts. They are empirically successful in effectively bringing about constitutional changes. But are they a normatively legitimate way to exercise constituent power?openaire +1 more source
The People and Constituent Power
Abstract This chapter offers a brief long durée material intellectual history of ‘the people’ as bearer of constituent power. It engages with the conception of ‘the people’ as embedded in specific socio-political arrangements in the ancient world, republican Florence, seventeenth-century England, the French Revolution, early twentieth-openaire +1 more source
The Aesthetics of Constituent Power
Abstract The ‘formless form-giving’ constituent power of the people raises not only vexing questions of institutionalization, legitimacy, and law but also aesthetic questions of visualization, representation, and form. Drawing from the example of the French Revolution, this chapter explores the debates around the aesthetics of popularopenaire +1 more source
Populism and Constituent Power
Abstract Why do populists bother with redesigning formal constitutions once they have abolished prior ‘flawed’ or oligarchic ones? Why do populist executives focus on constitutional transformation even with respect to their own, enacted constitutions? I argue that the populist leader’s claim to embody the constituent power, purportingopenaire +1 more source
Between Constituent Power and Political Form: Toward a Theory of Council Democracy
Political Theory, 2021Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen
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Machiavelli and constituent power: The revolutionary foundation of modern political thought
European Journal of Political Theory, 2017Filippo Del Lucchese
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