ISBN:
9781108757119
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9781108485432
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9781108707138
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Ideas in context 128
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rubinelli, Lucia, 1989 - Constituent power
Dissertation note:
Dissertation University of Cambridge 2017
DDC:
342.408/5
Keywords:
Constituent power
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Constituent power ; Europe
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Hochschulschrift
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Europa
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Konstitutionalismus
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Geschichte 1789-
Abstract:
From the French Revolution onwards, constituent power has been a key concept for thinking about the principle of popular power, and how it should be realised through the state and its institutions. Tracing the history of constituent power across five key moments - the French Revolution, nineteenth-century French politics, the Weimar Republic, post-WWII constitutionalism, and political philosophy in the 1960s - Lucia Rubinelli reconstructs and examines the history of the principle. She argues that, at any given time, constituent power offered an alternative understanding of the power of the people to those offered by ideas of sovereignty. Constituent Power: A History also examines how, in turn, these competing understandings of popular power resulted in different institutional structures and reflects on why contemporary political thought is so prone to conflating constituent power with sovereignty.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2020)
DOI:
10.1017/9781108757119
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