From the French Revolution onwards, constituent power has been a key concept for thinking about the principle of popular power, and how it should be realised through the state and its institutions. Tracing the history of constituent power across five key moments - the French Revolution, nineteenth-century French politics, the Weimar Republic, post-WWII constitutionalism, and political philosophy in the 1960s - Lucia Rubinelli reconstructs and examines the history of the principle. She argu...

The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power maps and systematically examines the revival of constituent power. In recent decades, scholars, as well as political actors, have rediscovered the category and used it in ever new ways, challenging traditional accounts of its scope and function. But while new and creative applications may have inspired political developments and led to innovation in political and constitutional theory, the proliferation of accounts of constituent power has brought w...

Il riferimento alla donna, diventa rimando e immagine di de-licatezza, raffinatezza, sensibilità, eleganza, in sintesi vera bellezza dell’umanità. Tuttavia nel tempo la paura, la rozzezza, il pregiudizio e l’invidia, del “maschio”, nei secoli hanno discriminato nei più disparati contesti politici, economici, sociali, amministrativi, università e ogni grado d’insegnamento - la figura e il ruolo della donna. A guisa di quell’ospite che pur invitato al banchetto, si preferisce lasciarlo sull’...