On New Beginnings and Democratic Legitimacy

This paper sets out to discuss the enigma of revolutionary new political beginnings of constitutional orders. The problem is that when a political community is constituted, the act of constituting per definition is unconstitutional or extra-legal. For this reason the question of new beginnings is a...

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Main Author: Signe Larsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2013-06-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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Online Access:http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-8-no-2-2013/58-conference-paper/417-on-new-beginnings-and-democratic-legitimacy