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Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I National Sovereignty : A Comparative Analysis of the Juridification by Constitution.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müßig, Ulrike.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in the History of Law and Justice Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Juridification by Constitution. National Sovereignty in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Europe
  • 1 On ReConFort's Research Programme in General
  • 2 Method of Comparative Constitutional History
  • 2.1 Targeted Sources of ReConFort
  • 2.2 Methodological Challenges: Finding the Tertia Comparationis
  • 2.3 Constitutionalisation by Public Sphere
  • 2.3.1 Press Media as Roadster of Politicisation
  • 2.3.2 Importance of Cross-Border News: The American Revolution in the Polish Public Discourse
  • 3 References to the National Sovereignty in the Historic Discourses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Europe
  • 3.1 In General: The Nation's Start as Singular State Organisational Legal Point of Reference
  • 3.2 The Various Interpretations of National Sovereignty in the Works of Sieyès
  • 3.2.1 Anti-estate Societal Meaning of National Sovereignty
  • 3.2.2 Anti-monarchical Meaning of National Sovereignty
  • 3.2.3 The National Sovereignty as Idea or Principle of an "ordre nouveau"
  • 3.3 Openness of the Political Vocabulary of 1789 for the Rankly Oriented Use of Nation by the French parlements
  • 3.4 The Nation in the Polish May-Constitution 1788
  • 3.4.1 Old Republicanism as an Integral Part of the Juridification by Constitution
  • 3.4.2 The Procedural Openness of May Constitution as Reflex onto the Juridification of National Sovereignty
  • 3.5 National Sovereignty in the Cádiz Constitution 1812
  • 3.5.1 Sovereignty of the Spanish Nation (nación española)
  • 3.5.2 Late Scholastic Concepts of the Transfer of Sovereignty (translatio imperii) or the Nation as Moral Entity (cuerpo moral) in the Cádiz Debates
  • 3.5.3 The Natural Origin of National Sovereignty as a Limitation for the Monarchical Sovereignty
  • 3.5.4 Primacy of the Cortes in the Constitution of Cádiz.
  • 3.5.5 The Legitimisation of the Cádiz Constitution by the Old Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom (las antiguas leyes fundamentales de la Monarquía)
  • 3.5.6 Struggle of the realistas for the Monarchical Principle
  • 3.5.7 Contemporary Ambigous Evaluation of the Cádiz Constitution
  • 3.6 The Constituent Sovereignty in the Norwegian Grunnloven
  • 3.6.1 Eidsvoll Debates and the Norwegian Grunnloven of May 17, 1814
  • 3.6.2 Moss Process into the Swedish Union: The Extraordinary Storting as Constituent Assembly and the Fundamental Law of the Norwegian Empire of November 4, 1814
  • 3.6.3 Relationship Between Monarch and Parliament in the Norwegian Grunnloven
  • 3.6.4 Monarchical Right to Veto on Constitutional Amendments and the Smooth Transition to the Parliamentary System
  • 3.7 The Lack of the Notion Sovereignty in the French Charte Constitutionnelle 1814
  • 4 The Undecisiveness Between Popular and Monarchical Sovereignty in the Constitutional Movement After the French July Revolution 1830
  • 4.1 The Constitutional Movement After the French July Revolution 1830
  • 4.2 Belgian Constitution of 1831
  • 4.3 Parliamentarism in England
  • 5 Octroi of the Statuto Albertino 1848
  • 5.1 The Octroi of the Piedmontese Statuto Albertino and the Lack of an Italian Parliamentary Assembly
  • 5.2 Italian costituzione flessibile Under the Statuto Albertino
  • 5.3 On the Extension of the Statuto Albertino 1848 to Italy 1860: From the Octroi to the Referenda
  • 6 Improvised Parliamentarism in the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • 7 Summary and Outlook
  • References
  • National Sovereignty in the Belgian Constitution of 1831. On the Meaning(s) of Article 25
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Parliament Versus King
  • 2.1 Parliament as the Sole Representative of the Nation
  • 2.2 Congress as the Sole Constituting Power
  • 2.3 The Legitimacy of the Senate
  • 2.4 Nation Versus King.
  • 2.5 The Royal Veto and the National Will
  • 2.6 Republican Monarchism
  • 2.7 The King-Magistrate
  • 2.8 The Constitutional Powers of the King
  • 3 National or Popular Sovereignty?
  • 3.1 A False Opposition
  • 3.2 The Limitation of Political Participation
  • 4 Reception
  • 4.1 The Contested Nature of Popular Sovereignty
  • 4.2 Legal Order, Legitimate Representation and Political Participation
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 6 Summaries (French &amp
  • Dutch)
  • 6.1 La souveraineté de la Nation dans la Constitution belge de 1831. Sur les significations de l'article 25
  • 6.2 Nationale soevereiniteit in de Belgische Grondwet van 1831. Over de betekenis(sen) van artikel 25
  • References
  • The Omnipotence of Parliament in the Legitimisation Process of 'Representative Government' under the Albertine Statute (1848-1861)
  • 1 Parliament, Consensus and Public Opinion
  • 2 Between Lemmas and Culture
  • 2.1 Constitution and Sovereignty Within the 'Consiglio di Conferenza'. Some Choices Between Political Opportunity and Juridical Reasoning
  • 2.2 Culture, Foreign Models and Coeval Experiences
  • 2.3 The Sovereign Power between Dictionaries, Political Catechisms and Newspapers
  • 2.3.1 Dictionaries
  • 2.3.2 Political Catechisms
  • 2.3.3 Newspapers
  • 3 The Represented "Nation": A Pact Between Sovereign and People, the Force of the Constitution and Political Representation
  • 4 From Words to Practice. Initial Steps of the 'Representative Government'
  • 4.1 Massimo D'Azeglio and the Defence of the Representative Government
  • 5 Towards National Unification
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 7 Summary (Italian)
  • References
  • The Sovereignty Issue in the Public Discussion in the Era of the Polish 3rd May Constitution (1788-1792)
  • 1 Introductory Remarks
  • 2 Planes of Discussion
  • 3 Characteristics of Sources
  • 4 Some Aspects of the Discourse on Sovereignty in the Poland of Enlightenment.
  • 4.1 Sovereignty as a Theoretical Problem
  • 4.1.1 Introduction
  • 4.1.2 'Sovereignty' in Media and Free Prints Debate
  • 4.1.3 'Sovereignty' in Parliamentary Debate
  • 4.1.4 'Sovereignty' in Legal Acts
  • 4.2 The Nation
  • 4.2.1 Introduction
  • 4.2.2 'The Nation' in the Media and Printed Materials
  • 4.2.3 'The Nation' in the Parliamentary Debate
  • 4.2.4 'The Nation' in Constitutional Acts
  • 4.3 The Monarch as a Sovereign
  • 4.3.1 Introduction
  • 4.3.2 The Monarch in the Debate of Public Media
  • 4.3.3 The Monarch in the Parliamentary Debate
  • 4.3.4 The Monarch in the Constitutional Acts
  • 5 Summary
  • 6 Summary (Polish)
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Our Free Royal Cities in the States of the Rzeczpospolita of April 18, 1791
  • Article I
  • On the Cities
  • Article II
  • On the Rights of the Town Citizens
  • Article III
  • On the Justice for the Citizens
  • About the Authors
  • Index.

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