The Adventures of the Constituent Power: Beyond Revolutions?

ISBN-13: 9781107565647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 481 str.

Andrew Arato

Opis

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: key concepts: legitimacy, sovereignty, revolution, constitution and sovereign dictatorship; Part I. On the History of the Idea of the Constituent Power: 1. The origins of the idea of the sovereign constituent power; 2. The antinomies of the framers in the first democratic revolutions; Part II. Post Sovereignty and the Return of Revolution: 3. The evolution of the post revolutionary paradigm: from Spain to South Africa; 4. The time of revolutions; Part III. Constitutional Change under Constitutional Regimes: 5. Post sovereign constitutionalism: likely and desirable outcomes; Epilogue: breaking the link between revolution and sovereign dictatorship the case of the all Russian constituent assembly, 1917–18.