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Sovereignty Across Generations: Constituent Power and Political Liberalism
By taking new steps in updating and revisiting political liberalism, this book reconstructs Rawls's implicit view of constituent power beyond the pages dedicated to it in Political Liberalism and brings that view into conversation with major constitutional theories of the twentieth century.
Author(s) | By Alessandro Ferrara (Professor of Political Philosophy, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 336 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 28 Feb 2023 |
Availability | Available |
By taking new steps in updating and revisiting political liberalism, this book reconstructs Rawls's implicit view of constituent power beyond the pages dedicated to it in Political Liberalism and brings that view into conversation with major constitutional theories of the twentieth century.
1: Why Political Liberalism? 2: Populism and Political Liberalism 3: Transcending an Ossified Binary: Political Liberalism on Constituent Power 4: Political Liberalism And 'The People' 5: Sequential Sovereignty: On Representing 'The People' and the El
Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Adjunct Professor of Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. Past President of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy, Ferrara has co-dir