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The paradox of constitutionalism : Constituent power and constitutional form

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2008Description: 375p ixISBN:
  • 9780199552207 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.730000 LOU
Contents:
• 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.;
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• 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.;