Constituent Power: A History

by Lucia Rubinelli

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110848543X
• ISBN13: 9781108485432
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.1"