First, during the Restoration constituent power was used to pose a limit to the power of the monarch. Second, throughout the July Monarchy scholars resorted to constituent power to oppose the Parliament's claim to be the sovereign power and the only legitimate author of the constitution. More...
Moreover, the legitimacy of single institutions depends on their consistency with the principle of popular power. This is not only true of well-studied institutions such as parliaments and constitutional courts, but also of relatively overlooked ones of the likes of referendums, federalism, ...
At least since the French Revolution, the idea of constituent power has been used to indicate the power the people have to create legal-political orders. As such, the history of constituent power is deeply tied to the principle of popular power and, through it, to the history of democracy,...
[...]minorities living in the Republic of Hungary participate in the sovereign power ofthepeople:they representaconstituentpartof the State. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 根据《宪法》,生活在匈牙利共和国的少数民族和族裔参与行使人民主权:他们代表国家的一个组成部分。
of the future Interim Independent Electoral Commission, the NationalConstituentAssembly and the new Federal Parliament. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 在索马里,在 2 月份举行的第二届全国制宪会议 期间,政治部工作人员建议采取措施,以确保妇女在 未来的临时独立选举委员会、全国制宪大会和新的联 邦...
That is to say, the majority of the proletariat and almost half of the military voted for the Bolsheviks. The counterrevolutionaries struggled against Soviet power under the slogan “All power to the Constituent Assembly!” and they created the Union for the Defense of the Constituent Assembly....
Stupid idea I know, but just imagine how much power the guy on the switch would have. Iain Gill May 16, 2020 Those people who normally work away from home, and live in hotels or B & B’s Monday to Friday, are completely stuffed at the moment. Most hotels simply not taking ...
the theory of constituent power' (p. 1), Joel Colón-Ríos, Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, engages in depth with texts of constitutional theory of the past two centuries, as well as with developments in constitutional justice of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries....
The first ended with a High Court decision that the constitution-making process was unconstitutional because it failed to provide an opportunity for the exercise of constituent power by the Kenyan people. In the second phase Parliament sought to shield substantive questions of constitutional design ...
Using continental political philosophy and critical legal theory, Human Rights and Constituent Power presents a very different conception of human rights, more at home on the riotous streets than in courtrooms and parliaments.