Sovereignty, Civic Participation, and Constitutional Law - The People Versus the Nation in Belgium

List of contents

1. A Simple Sentence. Towards a New Interpretation of Sovereignty in the Belgian Constitution
Part I. Intellectual Context
2. Constitutionalism in Restoration Europe
3. Benjamin Constant and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty
4. Abbé Sieyès: The Immanent and Transcendent Nation
Part II. 1831 – The Belgian Moment
5. The Liberal and Catholic Origins of the Belgian Constitution. From the Opposition under the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Constitutional Debates of 1830-1831
6. The Coppet Group and the Political Liberalism of the Belgian Founding Fathers
7. Constituent Power in the Belgian National Congress and the 1831 Belgian Constitution
8. ‘All Powers Emanate from the Nation’. People, Nation and Sovereignty in the Belgian Constitution of 1831
9. Belgium’s 1831 Representative System: Making Representation National Again
Part III. Sovereignty and Civic Participation
10. The Monist Nation and the General Will: Raymond Carré de Malberg on Sovereignty
11. Pulling the Curtain on the National Sovereignty Myth. Sovereignty and Referendums in Belgian Constitutional Doctrine
12. Laboratories for Democracy. Democratic Renewal in the Belgian Federation
13. A Non-Populist Direct Democracy for Belgium
14. Democratic Constitution-Making under the Belgian Constitution. Utilising its Untapped Potential
15. Sovereignty without Sovereignty. The Belgian Solution

About the author

Brecht Deseure is a post-doctoral researcher at King’s College London, UK.
Raf Geenens is an associate professor of ethics and legal philosophy at KU Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy.
Stefan Sottiaux is a professor of constitutional law and human rights at KU Leuven's Faculty of Law.

Summary

This book studies recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution. It is the first to make recent debates in this field accessible to international scholars and will be valuable to academics and researchers in Constitutional Law, Politics and Legal History.

Product details

• Authors: Brecht Deseure, Brecht Geenens Deseure, Raf Geenens, Stefan Sottiaux
• Assisted by: Brecht Deseure (Editor), Raf Geenens (Editor), Geenens Raf (Editor), Stefan Sottiaux (Editor), Sottiaux Stefan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367483593
• ISBN: 978-0-367-48359-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; European History, Belgium, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Government / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law