Abstract:In the context of the American Revolution, alongside the influential notion of constituent power advocated, for instance, by the Federalists, emerged an alternative and potent perspective about this concept. This perspective, which was particularly strong in revolutionary Pennsylvania, had at least two distinctive features. First, rather than limiting constituent power to a sort of ante-room of constitutional authority, this view conferred primacy to the constituent process over the institutional machinery. Se… Show more
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