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Constituent Power and the Law
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.
| Author(s) | By Joel Colon-Rios (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 352 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 26 Mar 2020 |
| Availability | Available |
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.
1: Introduction 2: Back to Rousseau 3: Sieyes 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
Joel Colon-Rios 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 P
