Situating the debate on global constitutionalism

Schwöbel, Christine E. J.

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“…In revolutionary France, in partial contrast, the final distinction between constituent and constituted power was not strictly established until after 1795. Even after 1791, parliamentary sittings could not easily be divided from constituent assemblies (see Sieyès 1796: 97; Lafayette 1839: 50). Moreover, the revolution as a whole was shaped by a deep hostility to independent judicial actors, and the revolutionary constitutions clearly constrained the ability of the judiciary to check legislative power 42 .…”

Section: A Systemic/functionalist Approach To Constituent Powermentioning

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Contemporary constitutionalism and the dialectic of constituent power

Thornhill

2012

Glob. Con.

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This article examines the changing status of constituent power in contemporary constitutionalism. It considers how, at face value, contemporary constitutional law reflects a post-constituent constitutional order, which is defined by a rupture with classical constitutional principles, such that the extra-legal source of constitutional order is diminished. However, it argues that the common perception of a decline in constituent power in constitutional norm construction is marked by an excessively literalistic understanding of the origins of constitutional norms and practices. As an alternative, drawing on systems-theoretical methodologies, the article proposes a functionalist, sociologically attuned reconstruction of the historical content of constitutional concepts, including the concept of constituent power. Through this perspective, it explains that constituent power, in conjunction with constitutional rights, always acted, not as an externally founding source of political agency, but as an inner projection of the political system, which served the internal organization of the political system as a distinct societal domain. The article concludes that the transnational constitutional models which are widespread in contemporary society, far from negating constituent power, re-articulate its primary functions, and they realize potentials for preserving the autonomy of the political system which constituent power always contained.

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Section: A Systemic/functionalist Approach To Constituent Powermentioning

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Contemporary constitutionalism and the dialectic of constituent power

Thornhill

2012

Glob. Con.

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“…Es necesario incluir nuevos enfoques de la disciplina que permitan responder a la pregunta sobre el papel del comparatista en el constitucionalismo global, entendido como "an academic and political agenda that identifies and advocates for the application of constitutionalist principles in the international legal sphere in order to improve the effectiveness and the fairness of the international legal order" [una agenda política y académica que identifica y aboga por la aplicación de los principios constitucionales en la esfera legal internacional, con el fin de mejorar la efectividad y la justicia del orden legal internacional] (Peters, 2009, p. 397). No habiendo una constitución global reconocida, sino varias visiones acerca de lo que es y debería ser la constitución global en sus dimensiones social, institucional y normativa, entre otras (Schwöbel, 2010), el derecho constitucional comparado se enfrenta al desafío de explorar nuevas alternativas conceptuales y metodológicas para contribuir al debate sobre la construcción de la dimensión global del constitucionalismo.…”

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Por que comparar? Propósitos e desafios do direito constitucional comparado no século XXI

Collazos¹

2021

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El constitucionalismo comparado ha surgido después de la Guerra Fría como una herramienta importante para las transiciones democráticas y la consolidación de la paz. Sin embargo, los enfoques tradicionales no proporcionan explicaciones plausibles para nuevos fenómenos como la globalización y el diálogo entre tribunales. A pesar del resurgimiento del campo, el constitucionalismo comparado enfrenta desafíos relacionados con la selección de casos y la ambivalencia hacia las ciencias sociales. Este artículo hace referencia al debate básico sobre los propósitos y desafíos del derecho constitucional comparado moderno. La idea principal es que el estudio del constitucionalismo debe estrechar lazos con las ciencias sociales para construir un derecho constitucional comparado pluralista.

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“…Despite calls to engage with feminist critiques, 10 global constitutionalism appears oblivious to critical literatures within domestic and comparative constitutional law (and also to those within international law). Global constitutional lawyers talk of the rule of law, the separation 6 Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, 'Feminism and International Law: An Opportunity' (2002) 14 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 345,355 'In the face of such overwhelming wrongs, the universalist human rights discourse has been extraordinarily powerful, indeed transformative, for women around the world'. of powers and democratic legitimacy from a traditional liberal perspective, seemingly indifferent to the feminist critiques of these ideas.…”

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Can global constitutionalisation be feminist?

O’Donoghue¹,

Houghton²

2019

Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement With International Law

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Global Constitutionalisation offers a utopian picture of the future of international law. Its advocates suggest a governance system is emergent that will fill the gaps in legitimacy, democracy and the rule of law present in international law. The aim is to create a better global legal order, by filling these gaps with both normative and procedural constitutionalism, but, better for whom? Feminism has challenged the foundations of both international law and constitutionalism. It demonstrates that the design of normative structures accommodate and sustain prevailing patriarchal forms that leave little room for alternative accounts or voices. Both international and constitutional law's structures support the status quo and are resistant to critical and feminist voices. The question is whether it is possible for constitutionalism to change international law in ways that will open it to alternate possibilities. Feminist Constitutionalism aims to rebuild and rethink constitutional law and reflect feminist experience and debate, to redefine its limits and refocus its ambitions, opening it to new concerns. Global Constitutionalism is not, up to the present, concerned with such questioning. It has been immune to questioning of its underlying aims or assumptions. This chapter considers whether global constitutionalism, grounded in feminist discourse, could offer international law and global constitutionalism a new pathway. In does so by offering a manifesto which global constitutionalism can take to inculcate feminist concerns into its processes from the outset.

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Situating the debate on global constitutionalism

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Contemporary constitutionalism and the dialectic of constituent power

Contemporary constitutionalism and the dialectic of constituent power

Por que comparar? Propósitos e desafios do direito constitucional comparado no século XXI

Can global constitutionalisation be feminist?

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