Sovereignty Across Generations - Constituent Power and Political Liberalism

By taking new steps in updating and revisiting political liberalism, this book reconstructs Rawls's implicit view of constituent power beyond the pages dedicated to it in Political Liberalism and brings that view into conversation with major constitutional theories of the twentieth century.

List of contents

• 1: Why Political Liberalism?


• 2: Populism and Political Liberalism


• 3: Transcending an Ossified Binary: Political Liberalism on Constituent Power


• 4: Political Liberalism And 'The People'


• 5: Sequential Sovereignty: On Representing 'The People' and the Electorate


• 6: Representing 'The People' As Interpreting the Constitution


• 7: Amending Power: Vertical Reciprocity and Political Liberalism

About the author

Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Adjunct Professor of Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. Past President of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy, Ferrara has co-directed the annual Prague Conference on Philosophy and Social Science since 1993. Educated at U.C. Berkeley, as Harkness Fellow, and at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, as Humboldt Fellow under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas, he has authored The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism (2014) and, with Frank I. Michelman, Legitimation by Constitution (2021).

Summary

By taking new steps in updating and revisiting political liberalism, this book reconstructs Rawls's implicit view of constituent power beyond the pages dedicated to it in Political Liberalism and brings that view into conversation with major constitutional theories of the twentieth century.

Additional text

Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Ferrara, Alessandro (Professor of Political Philos Ferrara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2023
• EAN: 9780192871077
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287107-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law