BOOK: Lucia RUBINELLI, Constituent Power: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). ISBN 9781108485432, USD 99.99

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Cambridge University Press has published a history of constituent power.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lucia Rubinelli, University of Cambridge

Lucia Rubinelli is Junior Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought at Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Sieyès and the French Revolution

2. Constitutional Politics in Nineteenth-Century France

3. The Weimar Republic

4. Constitutional politics in post-World War II Europe

5. Arendt and the French Revolution

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

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