Between Constituent Power and Constituent Authority

Arcioni, Elisa; Duke, George

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Between Constituent Power and Constituent Authority

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2022) pp. 345–365 doi:10.1093/ojls/gqab030

23 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2022

See all articles by Elisa Arcioni

Elisa Arcioni

The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law

George Duke

Deakin University - School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Date Written: September 24, 2021

Abstract

This review article offers a critical appraisal of Joel Colon-Rıos’s Constituent Power and the Law. It argues that while Colon-Rıos’s book is undoubted-ly a major advance in scholarship on constituent power, it leaves the reader wanting more illumination in its treatment of the relationship between the descriptive and the normative dimensions of the concept.

Keywords: Constituent Power, Constitutionalism, Popular Sovereignty.

JEL Classification: K10

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Arcioni, Elisa and Duke, George, Between Constituent Power and Constituent Authority (September 24, 2021). Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2022) pp. 345–365 doi:10.1093/ojls/gqab030, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4126703