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Weak Constitutionalism : Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power.

It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colón-Ríos, Joel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in constitutional law.
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505 0 |a Front Cover; Weak Constitutionalism; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: towards a weak constitutionalism; Democratic constitutionalism; Democracy and the fundamental laws; Constituent power; Democratic legitimacy; Weak constitutionalism; Outline of the argument; 2. The end of constitutionalism; The aspiration to permanence (or the fear of constituent power); Constitutionalism as the protector of democracy; Beyond 'democratic rights': the extra-democratic effects of constitutions; Concluding remarks; 3. The second dimension of democracy. 
505 8 |a The two dimensions of democracyThe theory and practice of substantive and procedural democracy; Ignoring the second dimension of democracy; The second dimension of democracy: approaching constituent power; Concluding remarks; 4. Democracy's principles; The principle of democratic openness; The principle of popular participation; Negating democratic openness; Negating popular participation; Concluding remarks; 5. The theory (and practice) of constituent power; Locke and Lawson: constituent power or right of resistance?; Sieyes and Schmitt on constituent power and constitutional remaking. 
505 8 |a Constituent power in contemporary constitutionalismConcluding remarks; 6. The idea of democratic legitimacy; The idea of legitimacy; Towards a conception of democratic legitimacy; Democratic legitimacy and the risks of constituent power; The conditions of democratic legitimacy; Concluding remarks; 7. The transformation of the juridical; Schmitt and Rawls on the limits of constitutional reform; The judicial doctrine of constitutional substitution; Constitutional reform and acts of the people; Concluding remarks; 8. The beginnings of weak constitutionalism; Weak constitutionalism. 
505 8 |a Exercising constituent power or weak constitutionalism's mechanismsOf constituent assemblies convened from below; Constituent assemblies and unwritten constitutions; Concluding remarks; 9. Activating constituent power; The activation/execution distinction; Of revolutions, informal assemblies, and other protests; Concluding remarks; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 
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