The paradox of constitutionalism : constituent power and constitutional form / Constituent power and constitutional form edited by Martin Loughlin and Neil Walker. - viii, 375 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-368) and index.

Constituent power and reflexive identity : towards an ontology of collective selfhood / Hans Lindahl -- Constituent power subverted : from English constitutional argument to British constitutional practice / Martin Loughlin -- Constituent power and constitutional change in American constitutionalism / Stephen M. Griffin -- Constituent power in France : the revolution and its consequences / Lucien Jaume -- 'We are (afraid or) the people' : constituent power in German constitutionalism / Christoph Mollers -- People and elites in republican constitutions, traditional and modern / John P. McCormick -- The politics of the question of constituent power / David Dyzenhaus -- Private and public autonomy revisited : Habermas' concept of co-originality in times of globalization and the militant security state / Rainer Nickel -- Constitutionalism's post-modern opening / Paolo Carrozza -- Against substitution : the constitutional thinking of dissensus / Emilios Christodoulidis -- The exercise of constituent power in Central and Eastern Europe / Ulrich K. Preuss -- 'We the peoples' : constituent power and constitutionalism in plurinational states / Stephen Tierney -- Post-constituent constitutionalism? : the case of the European Union / Neil Walker -- 'We the peoples of the United Nations' : constituent power and constitutional form in international law / Bardo Fassbender -- Constituent power and the pluralist ethic / Damian Chalmers -- The imperialism of modern constitutional democracy / James Tully.

0199204969 9780199204960

2007002203


Constituent power
Legitimacy of governments

K3289 / .P37 2007

320.011