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The Absent Sovereign and the Invisible Foundation: Political Liberalism’s Aporias in Theorizing Constituent Power

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Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal

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Abstract

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How can constituent power be simultaneously constrained by law and genuinely democratic? This question has haunted constitutional theory since Sieyès distinguished constituent from constituted power. This article argues that political liberalism’s ...