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Situating the people: the place of constituent power in the UK constitution [PDF]

This thesis argues that the necessary grounds for legitimating major constitutional changes related to the territorial and supranational levels of the UK constitution have shifted from the parliamentary process to expressions of constituent power ...
Petkar, Pravar
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The American tradition of constituent power [PDF]

International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2014
How do “the people” exercise their revolutionary right to replace the existing constitutional order? The conventional answer is that the people act through specially elected constitution-making bodies like constitutional conventions. But what powers must these specially elected institutions—as the representatives of the people—wield?
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Constituent Power and Constituent Authority

, 2021
My aim in this Paper is to analyze Professor Richard Kay’s notion of ‘constituent authority’ within H. L. A. Hart’s model of foundations of legal systems.
Barczentewicz, Mikolaj
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Constituent Power in Founding Constitutions

Političke Perspektive, 2015
The author analyses the normative consequences of the relationship between constituent power and constitutional identity in founding constitutions. In the first part of the article, the author points to the centrality of the constitution in the normative
Milan Podunavac
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Towards an Arendtian Theory of Constituent Power [PDF]

, 2020
This thesis joins the current debate about the paradox of constituent power in political theory. The paradox of constituent power is reflected by the tensional relationship between constituent power and constitutional form.
Tan, Ruijie
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Legalisation of Popular Constituent Power in Kosovo: Can Fundamentally Important Amendments Be Subject to Legalised Popular Approval?

Zbornik Znanstvenih Razprav
Popular constituent power is not bound by the rules and procedures of a pre-existing constitution. Nevertheless, it is possible and desirable to place that power within the framework of a constitutional regime.
Bardh Bokshi
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European Integration and constituent power

The argument in this chapter will be that it is not possible to understand the process of European integration without taking transnational manifestations of constituent power - understood not merely as the power to adopt and revise fundamental laws, but
Paul Blokker
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Feminist manifestos: Challenging the limits of performative constituent power through political representation

Global Constitutionalism
This paper examines the relationship between feminist manifestos and constituent power, focusing on the Chilean feminist movement. Manifestos have long been an influential political tool in shaping political identities and claiming power.
Natalia Morales Cerda
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Between Constituent Power and Constituent Authority

, 2022
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 ...
E Arcioni (14547074), George Duke (13070949)   +1 more
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CONSTITUENT POWER

, 2017
This chapter seeks to recover an alternative theory of sovereignty as constituent power that significantly departs from the canonical paradigm of command in order to investigate its democratic implications. The first section traces the beginnings of the concept, from the etymological meanings of the Latin verb “to constitute” to its initial medieval ...
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