1st Edition
Weak Constitutionalism Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power
By Joel Colón-Ríos
Copyright 2012
222 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The participation of ordinary citizens in constitutional change in the world's most "advanced"... Read more
1. Introduction: Toward a Weak Constitutionalism 2. Constitutionalism's Ends 3. The Second Dimension of Democracy 4. Democracy's Principles 5. The Theory (and Practise) of Constituent Power 6. The Idea of Democratic Legitimacy 7. The Transformation of the Juridical 8. The Beginnings of Weak Constitutionalism 9. Activating Constituent Power 10. Conclusion
Biography
Dr. Joel I. Colón-Ríos is a Lecturer in Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Carl Schmitt and Constituent Power in Latin American Courts (Constellations) and The Counter Majoritarian Difficulty and the Road Not Taken: Democratizing Amendment Rules (Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence).
