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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.
O. Doyle
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Constitutionalism

open access: yes, 2017
The idea of constitutionalism—like the ideas of state, government, democracy, power, and law to which it is very closely related—goes right to the heart of some of the very biggest questions about how we can live together. Where individuals coexist in any social group—a family, tribe, or nation state, or as citizens in a wider global order—there are ...
Godden, Andrew, Morison, John
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Conquest and constitutionalism: first thoughts on an alternative jurisprudence

open access: yesConquest, Constitutionalism and Democratic Contestations, 2018
This article examines the meaning and progress of post-1994 constitutional democracy in South Africa from the perspective of its (dis)continuity with the longue-durée history of colonial conquest, settler-colonialism and white supremacy.
J. Modiri
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Formation of Early National Constitutionalism from the Second Half of the Seventeenth to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Centuries

open access: yesТеорія і практика правознавства
The relevance of the topic lies in the need to disprove the pseudo-scientific statements of the political leadership of the Russian Federation concerning absence of a historical tradition of Ukrainian state-building and national constitutionalism.
Anatolii Kozachenko, Yuliia Perebyinis
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Theocratic Legal Revolution and the Origins of Modern Secularism in Dante

open access: yesSíntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2019
This article discusses an anti-sovranist variant of political theology. Recent work on the sociology of modern constitutionalism has identified its source in the so-called Papal legal revolution that proclaimed the autonomy of the Church in relation to ...
Miguel Vatter
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