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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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