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A Sociology Of Constituent Power: The Political Code Of Transnational Societal Constitutions, Christopher Thornhill
A Sociology Of Constituent Power: The Political Code Of Transnational Societal Constitutions, Christopher Thornhill
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article proceeds from a critical sociological revision of classical constitutional theory. In particular, it argues for a sociological reconstruction of the central concepts of constitutional theory: constituent power and rights. These concepts, it is proposed, first evolved as an internal reflexive dimension of the modern political system, which acted originally to stabilize the political system as a relatively autonomous aggregate of actors, adapted to the differentiated interfaces of a modern society.
This revision of classical constitutional theory provides a basis for a distinctive account of transnational constitutional pluralism or societal constitutionalism. The article argues that the construction of transnational …