Abstract

BELLO HUTT, DONALD. Deliberative, Republican, and Egalitarian Institutional Alternatives for Popular Constitutionalism. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2021, n.48, pp.183-214.  Epub May 03, 2021. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n48.07.

This article examines and proposes institutional instantiations for popular constitutionalism. The proposal is a progressive combination of institutions aiming at giving the citizenry the opportunity to determine what a constitution means, contributing to securing their liberty in a republican sense, implementing mechanisms of deliberation, and being respectful to a particular understanding of political equality. It first describes popular constitutionalism and the principles I believe should ground it. It then moves on to scrutinize sundry institutional alternatives available in the literature. After showing the areas where those proposals fall short of instantiating the principles here championed, the article argues for the implementation of four mechanisms that, I argue, do incarnate those principles.

Keywords : Popular constitutionalism; republicanisms; institutional design; deliberation; political equality.

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