Constituent Power
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A History
Lucia Rubinelli
Sinossi
From the French Revolution onwards, constituent power has been a key concept for thinking about the principle of popular power, and how it should be realised through the state and its institutions. Tracing the history of constituent power across five key moments - the French Revolution, nineteenth-century French politics, the Weimar Republic, post-WWII constitutionalism, and political philosophy in the 1960s - Lucia Rubinelli reconstructs and examines the history of the principle. She argues that, at any given time, constituent power offered an alternative understanding of the power of the people to those offered by ideas of sovereignty. Constituent Power: A History also examines how, in turn, these competing understandings of popular power resulted in different institutional structures and reflects on why contemporary political thought is so prone to conflating constituent power with sovereignty.
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Constituent Powerpp i-i
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Ideas in Context - Series pagepp ii-ii
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Constituent Power - Title pagepp iii-iii
A History
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Copyright pagepp iv-iv
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Dedicationpp v-vi
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Contentspp vii-viii
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Acknowledgementspp ix-x
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Introductionpp 1-32
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Chapter 1 - Sieyès and the French Revolutionpp 33-74
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Chapter 2 - Constitutional Politics in Nineteenth-Century Francepp 75-102
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Chapter 3 - The Weimar Republicpp 103-140
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Chapter 4 - Constitutional Politics in Post–World War II Europepp 141-175
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Chapter 5 - Arendt and the French Revolutionpp 176-205
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Conclusionpp 206-229
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Bibliographypp 230-245
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Indexpp 246-255
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Ideas In Context - Series pagepp 256-268
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