WEAK CONSTITUTIONALISM DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY AND THE QUESTION OF CONSTITUENT POWERPDF电子书下载

1 Introduction: towards a weak constitutionalism 1

Democratic constitutionalism 3

Democracy and the fundamental laws 5

Constituent power 7

Democratic legitimacy 9

Weak constitutionalism 10

Outline of the argument 12

2 The end of constitutionalism 17

The aspiration to permanence （or the fear of constituent power） 18

Constitutionalism as the protector of democracy 21

Beyond ‘democratic rights’: the extra-democratic effects of constitutions 26

Concluding remarks 29

3 The second dimension of democracy 35

The two dimensions of democracy 36

The theory and practice of substantive and procedural democracy 41

Ignoring the second dimension of democracy 43

The second dimension of democracy: approaching constituent power 47

Concluding remarks 51

4 Democracy’s principles 57

The principle of democratic openness 57

The principle of popular participation 60

Negating democratic openness 64

Negating popular participation 68

Concluding remarks 73

5 The theory （and practice） of constituent power 79

Locke and Lawson: constituent power or right of resistance? 80

Sieyes and Schmitt on constituent power and constitutional remaking 84

Constituent power in contemporary constitutionalism 88

Concluding remarks 94

6 The idea of democratic legitimacy 102

The idea of legitimacy 103

Towards a conception of democratic legitimacy 107

Democratic legitimacy and the risks of constituent power 109

The conditions of democratic legitimacy 114

Concluding remarks 118

7 The transformation of the juridical 126

Schmitt and Rawls on the limits of constitutional reform 127

The judicial doctrine of constitutional substitution 132

Constitutional reform and acts of the people 139

Concluding remarks 143

8 The beginnings of weak constitutionalism 152

Weak constitutionalism 153

Exercising constituent power or weak constitutionalism’s mechanisms 156

Of constituent assemblies convened from below 160

Constituent assemblies and unwritten constitutions 165

Concluding remarks 168

9 Activating constituent power 175

The activation/execution distinction 175

Of revolutions, informal assemblies, and other protests 178

Concluding remarks 182

10 Conclusion 186

Bibliography 189

Index 203