‘We the heads of state …’: Pitfalls of global constitutional practice
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DOI: 10.1017/s2045381720000301
Abstract: Abstract Constitutions are social and historical artefacts that take part in the government of humans. Based on a comparison of how contemporary ‘global’ and historical ‘local’ constitutional documents establish power relations between ‘humans’ and their… read more here.
Keywords: global constitutionalism; constitutional practice; state pitfalls; global constitutional ... See more keywords
Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0382-8
Abstract: Constitutions help define domestic political orders, but are known to be influenced by international mechanisms that are normative, temporal and network based. Here we introduce the concept of the ‘provision space’—the set of all legal… read more here.
Keywords: mechanisms global; global constitutional; network; temporal network ... See more keywords
Constituent power and constituent capacity in the making of a global constitutional treaty
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DOI: 10.1177/17550882251351926
Abstract: International law is quasi-constitutionalized, and there is a case to be made for further constitutionalization. But who should be in charge for making a global constitution? At the domestic level, the answer is the popular… read more here.
Keywords: global constitutional; power constituent; constituent power; power ... See more keywords