Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-368) and index
Constituent power and reflexive identity: towards an ontology of collective selfhood / Hans Lindahl -- Constituent power subverted: from English constitutional argument to British constitutional practice / Martin Loughlin -- Constituent power and constitutional change in American constitutionalism / Stephen M. Griffin -- Constituent power in France: the revolution and its consequences / Lucien Jaume -- 'We are (afraid or) the people': constituent power in German constitutionalism / Christoph Mollers -- People and elites in republican constitutions, traditional and modern / John P. McCormick -- The politics of the question of constituent power / David Dyzenhaus -- Private and public autonomy revisited: Habermas' concept of co-originality in times of globalization and the militant security state / Rainer Nickel -- Constitutionalism's post-modern opening / Paolo Carrozza -- Against substitution: the constitutional thinking of dissensus / Emilios Christodoulidis -- The exercise of constituent power in Central and Eastern Europe / Ulrich K. Preuss -- 'We the peoples': constituent power and constitutionalism in plurinational states / Stephen Tierney -- Post-constituent constitutionalism?: the case of the European Union / Neil Walker -- 'We the peoples of the United Nations': constituent power and constitutional form in international law / Bardo Fassbender -- Constituent power and the pluralist ethic / Damian Chalmers -- The imperialism of modern constitutional democracy / James Tully