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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Constituent power"”.
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Capillaries of force: constituent power, porous sovereignty, and the ethics of anarchism
… with IR must run through a mobilization of constituent power. Anarchist political theory is somewhat neglected by the discipline of IR. Yet, apart from the evident lack of anarchism in IR there exists another gap in the literature, namely the inconsistent application of constituent power to …
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… This dissertation examines how the amendment power can be used to legitimately produce a constitutional revolution, altering the core identity of a constitutional system. First, I argue that revolutionary amendments can be classified along two dimensions: institutional and socio-normative. …
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Bringing Zombies Back to Life: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Alienation and Political Dis/Engagement in Emerging Adulthood Within Late-Stage Capitalism
… my life will be theorized within the crisis of constituent power that is revealed in an immanent framework. Furthermore, the crisis of the constituent in late-stage capitalism creates new forms of radical alienation which will also be examined. By exploring my own struggles in becoming political …
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Why Ratification? Questioning the Unexamined Constitution-making Procedure
… stems from its function as a moment of constituent power, an instance where the people manifest and exercise their will to make a constitution their own. Third, I explore whether ratification helps legitimize constitutions; this entails articulating a three-part theory of legitimacy …
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The Conservative Power and the debate on constitutional guardianship in the United States and France, 1776-1815
… guardianship, referred to as the ‘conservative power’ (pouvoir conservateur) by its proponents, which played a central role in both American and French Revolutionary constitution-making from 1776-1815. Focusing primarily on the writings of Thomas Paine, James Madison, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, …
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The Hermeneutical Reality of Constitutional Law: Understanding the Legality of Constitutional Adjudication
… basis of prejudices instead of depending on a constituent power doctrine or a conception of constitutional identity. In doing this, the thesis also enriches the literature on constitutional unamendability by shedding light on the hitherto overlooked legality of the CCRT’s doctrine. Secondly, …
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Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: Constitutional Functions and Effects
… laws and, at the level of the United Kingdom’s constituent countries, a series of policy referendums have in fact been held. The old assumption is that such policy referendums are little more than political theatre or a mass opinion poll, and have little bearing on the normative architecture of …
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As relações entre o direito internacional e a constitucionalização nos estados da sociedade mundial: a experiência da Assembleia Constituinte no Brasil de 1987-1988
O direito internacional se estrutura como um sistema da sociedade mundial que interage comunicativamente com o sistema de organização criado para manifestar o poder constituinte por meio de decisões que resultarão no texto constitucional. A doutrina descreve o sistema de direito internacional a …