Against constitutionalism
"Tracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection of self-government has become a means for subverting popular will. Across the globe, constitutions now displace democratic decision-making, as courts interpret values in th...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press
2022
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is constitutionalism?
- Part I. Origins of constitutionalism: Constitutions: traditional and modern
- The ideology of constitutionalism
- The constitution of what?
- The path to ordo-constitutionalism
- Part II. Elements of constitutional democracy
- Constituent power
- Constitutional rights
- Constitutional democracy
- Part III. The Age of constitutionalism: The Constitution as civil religion
- Towards a juristocracy
- Integration through interpretation
- A new species of law?
- The struggle for recognition
- The cosmopolitan project
- Conclusion: Overcoming constitutionalism?