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The European Social Contract—A Discursive Tool to Imagine Europe and Manage Existential Anxieties

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 122-143, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine the European social contract as a political discourse. The concept has emerged as a catchy but politically‐laden concept within EU politics during Europe's polycrisis period. It has been employed by practitioners, civil society actors and politicians, with each referring to different kinds of contracts and often ...
Acar Kutay
wiley   +1 more source

OUTLINE OF A GENERAL THEORY OF SYSTEMIC CONSTITUCIONALISM FOR WORLD SOCIETY

open access: yesRevista Eletrônica Direito e Política, 2020
The present article aims to present to academic community the outline of a general theory of systemic constitutionalism. The method used was the functionalist, based on Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic systems. The instrumental (technical) research
Fernando Tonet   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Confines of Modern Constitutionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
[Excerpt] Constitutionalism is an ambiguous concept, or at least the term is used in ambiguous ways. Virtually every political theorist of the modern period, certainly during the last two hundred years or more, has used the concept of a political ...
Butleritchie, David T.
core   +1 more source

Constitutionalism and the Incompleteness of Democracy:An Iterative Relationship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper contends that the relationship between democracy and modern constitutionalism possesses an underappreciated complexity, which, unless addressed, prevents us from embracing the challenge to constitutionalism or the possibilities open to it in ...
Walker, Neil
core   +1 more source

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
openaire   +5 more sources

"We the people", "They the people" e o Enigma do Constitucionalismo Democrático

open access: yesTeoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2017
RESUMO: Tradução do artigo "We the people, They the people, and the puzzle of democratic constitutionalism"   ABSTRACT: Portuguese version of "We the people, They the people, and the puzzle of democratic constitutionalism"
David A. Strauss
doaj   +1 more source

Global constitutionalism and/as enlightenment

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
This editorial considers how scholars interested in issues of global constitutionalism should approach the questions that have concerned those interested in enlightenment.
Jared Holley   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Judicial review, reasons and technology: a glance at constitutionalism and democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Judicial review reflects the level of commitment between constitutionalism and democracy in contemporary States. Yet democracy as the sovereign government of the people implies a tension with constitutionalism as the rule of law.
Karam de Chueiri, Vera
core  

THE RULE OF LAW AS AN ELEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONALISM

open access: yesIustinianus Primus Law Review, 2017
The constitutionalism represents a set of ideas, attitudes and manners of conduct, that explain the principle of limitation of state power with legal means.
Jelena Trajkovska Hristovska
doaj  

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