Sovereignty, Civic Participation, and Constitutional Law (eBook, PDF)

The People versus the Nation in Belgium
Redaktion: Deseure, Brecht; Sottiaux, Stefan; Geenens, Raf

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution. It is the first to make recent debates in this field accessible to international scholars and will be valuable to academics and researchers in Constitutional Law, Politics and Legal History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000375022
• Artikelnr.: 61241183

Autorenporträt

Brecht Deseure is a post-doctoral researcher at King's College London, UK. Raf Geenens is an associate professor of ethics and legal philosophy at KU Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. Stefan Sottiaux is a professor of constitutional law and human rights at KU Leuven's Faculty of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Simple Sentence. Towards a New Interpretation of Sovereignty in the Belgian Constitution

Part I. Intellectual Context

2. Constitutionalism in Restoration Europe

3. Benjamin Constant and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty

4. Abbé Sieyès: The Immanent and Transcendent Nation

Part II. 1831 - The Belgian Moment

5. The Liberal and Catholic Origins of the Belgian Constitution. From the Opposition under the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Constitutional Debates of 1830-1831

6. The Coppet Group and the Political Liberalism of the Belgian Founding Fathers

7. Constituent Power in the Belgian National Congress and the 1831 Belgian Constitution

8. 'All Powers Emanate from the Nation'. People, Nation and Sovereignty in the Belgian Constitution of 1831

9. Belgium's 1831 Representative System: Making Representation National Again

Part III. Sovereignty and Civic Participation

10. The Monist Nation and the General Will: Raymond Carré de Malberg on Sovereignty

11. Pulling the Curtain on the National Sovereignty Myth. Sovereignty and Referendums in Belgian Constitutional Doctrine

12. Laboratories for Democracy. Democratic Renewal in the Belgian Federation

13. A Non-Populist Direct Democracy for Belgium

14. Democratic Constitution-Making under the Belgian Constitution. Utilising its Untapped Potential

15. Sovereignty without Sovereignty. The Belgian Solution