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Legitimation by Constitution: A Dialogue on Political Liberalism
"Legitimation by constitution" is a phrase coined by Michelman and Ferrara to represent an idea in Rawlsian political liberalism of reliance on a dualist democracy: ground-level laws are subject to the constraints of a legal constitution that all citizens, across the political spectrum, can accept as a framework for their collective politics.
| Author(s) | By Frank Michelman (Robert Walmsley Professor Emeritus, Robert Walmsley Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School), Alessandro Ferrara (Professor of Political Philosophy, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome II). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 208 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 22 Nov 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
"Legitimation by constitution" is a phrase coined by Michelman and Ferrara to represent an idea in Rawlsian political liberalism of reliance on a dualist democracy: ground-level laws are subject to the constraints of a legal constitution that all citizens, across the political spectrum, can accept as a framework for their collective politics.
Part I: Popular Sovereignty Versus Higher (and Higher) Law 1: "Always Under Law" 2: On the Paradox of Deliberative Democracy 3: The Challenge of "Most Reasonable for Us" 4: The "Most Reasonable for Us" or "Irrescusability" as Preserving Authenticity
Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, and teaches Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. He served as President of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy (2005-2010). He
