Joel Colón-Ríos

Constituent Power and the Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between constituent power and the law, and the place of the former in constitutional history, drawing from constitutional theory beyond the Anglo-American sphere, with new material made available for the first time to English readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780198785989
• ISBN-10: 0198785984
• Artikelnr.: 58891385

Autorenporträt

Joel Colón-Ríos is Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published widely in the areas of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law and is the author of Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic Legitimacy and Constituent Power.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Back to Rousseau
3: Sieyès via Rousseau
4: Between Law and Revolution
5: Of Constituent Nations
6: The Identity and Limits of the Constituent Subject
7: Rejecting Constituent Power
8: The Material Constitution
9: Sovereignty and Dictatorship
10: The Juridical People
11: Conclusion