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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    28 April 2020
    21 May 2020
    ISBN:
    9781108757119
    9781108485432
    9781108707138
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108757119
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.52kg, 276 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.41kg, 280 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, History of Ideas, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (128)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, History of Ideas, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (128)
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    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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