The undiminished constituent: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo

Christodoulidis, E. (2023) The undiminished constituent: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 21(4), pp. 1198-1204. (doi: 10.1093/icon/moad078)

Abstract

This Afterword is a response to Sergio Verdugo’s Foreword. It provides a defense of the notion of constituent power as a necessary element of the constitutional imaginary and ineradicable dimension of any credible account of democratic constitutionalism. It takes issue with what Verdugo identifies as the ‘conventional’ approach to constituent power, and argues that the collapse of constituent power into constituted power comes, philosophically and politically, at a significant cost. It concludes with a discussion of the recent irruption of constituent power in the constitutional situation in Chile.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Christodoulidis, Professor Emilios
• Authors: Christodoulidis, E.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Law
• Journal Name: International Journal of Constitutional Law
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• ISSN: 1474-2640
• ISSN (Online): 1474-2659
• Published Online: 21 November 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Author(s)
• First Published: First published in International Journal of Constitutional Law 21(4):1198-1204
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons license