Sovereignty, Civic Participation and Constitutional Law : : The People versus the Nation in Belgium / / edited by Brecht Deseure, Raf Geenens and Stefan Sottiaux.
This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory. Throughout the Western world, there are increasing calls for greater citizen participation. Referendums, citizen councils,...
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Sovereignty, Civic Participation and Constitutional Law : The People versus the Nation in Belgium / edited by Brecht Deseure, Raf Geenens and Stefan Sottiaux. Sovereignty, Civic Participation, and Constitutional Law Sovereignty, Civic Participation and Constitutional Law Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom : Routledge, 2021. 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Taylor & Francis, viewed on December 31, 2022). This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory. Throughout the Western world, there are increasing calls for greater citizen participation. Referendums, citizen councils, and other forms of direct democracy are considered necessary antidotes to a growing hostility towards traditional party politics. This book focuses on the Belgian debate, where the introduction of participatory politics has stalled because of an ambiguity in the Constitution. Scholars and judges generally claim that the Belgian Constitution gives ultimate power to the Nation, which can only speak through representation in parliament. In light of this, direct democracy would be an unconstitutional power grab by the current generation of citizens. This book critically investigates this received interpretation of the Constitution and, by reaching back to the debates among Belgium's 1831 founding fathers, concludes that it is untenable. The spirit, if not the text, of the Belgian Constitution allows for more popular participation than present-day jurisprudence admits. Combining new insights from law, history, and political science, this book is a showcase for continental constitutional theory. The questions it asks reverberate far beyond Belgium. The book provides a rare source of information on Belgium's 1831 Constitution, which was in its time seen as modern constitutionalism's greatest triumph which became a model for countless other constitutions. Political participation. Representative government and representation. Sovereignty. Belgium. 0-367-48359-9 Sottiaux, Stefan, editor. Geenens, Raf, editor. Deseure, Brecht, editor. |
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