Constituent power : a history / Lucia Rubinelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubinelli, Lucia, 1989- author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 128.

Ideas in context ; 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constituent power--Europe.

Constituent power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Languages of the revolution

Constituent power and nineteenth century French politics

Sovereignty as constituent power in the Weimar Republic

Legal debates in Post War World II Europe

Hannah Arendt on the power of the people.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-61855-3

1-108-62115-5

1-108-75711-1