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N°1
Constitutional law and politics
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About Jus Politicum
A statement of purpose Jus politicum is an online journal devoted to the exploration of the connections between the law, the political thought and the history of modern constitutions. That constitutional scholarship should take such a strongly (...)
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Interviews
Interview with Pierre Avril
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Participants : Denis Baranger, Carlos-Miguel Pimentel, Armel Le Divellec, Philippe Lauvaux
Pierre Avril, dans cet entretien, présente d’abord son itinéraire intellectuel: initialement intéressé par l’économie, il s’est tourné vers la science politique et le droit afin de comprendre les enjeux de la Ve République naissante. C’est le Pierre Avril témoin (...)
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Articles
Jean-Marie Denquin :
The present Situation of Constitutionalism. Some Thoughts about the Idea of Democracy by Law
Constitutionalism is, more often than not, equated with a notion of “achieving democracy through the law”. This entails the notion that, in a democracy, the law is expected to ensure the development of fundamental rights. The purpose of the article is to (...)
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Christoph Gusy :
About « Political Law»
Politics and Law are not contradictory. The Law tends to stabilize political decisions. And Politics are partially settled by Law. Which Roll can then be that of a so-called “political law” (droit politique, politisches Recht) ? It institutionalizes and (...)
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Carlos-Miguel Pimentel :
Reconnaissance et désaveu: contribution à une théorie du droit politique
The concept of « droit politique » implies that law should not be analyzed through the question of obedience, which concerns only the individual, but through the question of acknowledgment : on a collective scale, the sovereign has to be acknowledged by his (...)
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Catherine Colliot-Thélène :
After Sovereignty : what about subjective Rights ?
Political philosophy stands in need of moving from the erudite study of classical texts to a confrontation with the reality of politics in democratic societies. This makes an analysis of the meaning of subjective rights the more important. What is (...)
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András Jakab :
Neutralizing the Sovereignty Question. Compromise Strategies in Constitutional Argumentations about the Concept of Sovereignty for the European Union
The paper then examines whether the compromise strategies applied originally for the internal aspect can be used analogically for the problems of the external aspect posed by European integration, or whether there are other conceptual ways to go. Its (...)
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Augustin Simard :
The Failure of Weimar and the Origins of the “Militant Democracy” in West-Germany
This paper examines the intellectual roots of the concept of streitbare Demokratie (“militant democracy”) to which the mechanism of self-defense incorporated in the German 1949 constitution is usually referred. The survey mainly focuses on how the concept (...)
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Armel Le Divellec :
Cabinet as the leading Part of Parliament. Some Aspects of the hesitating Constitutional Reception of the Westminster Model in European Countries
Parliamentary Government is the most widespread category of political regime in the free World at the present time. Even if it may offer different nuances, this government system has a coherent Logic, which was pragmaticlly founded in Great Britain. In (...)
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Charles Reiplinger :
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, first efficient written Constitution in North America
In 1636, a few british exiles, guided by Thomas Hooker, a congregationalist pastor, left Massachussetts to found their own colony, today the State of Connecticut. They adopted in 1639 some Fundamental Orders, drawn to found and rule their government. (...)
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François Charbonneau :
“Another Idea has taken Place in America”. The Impact of the Imperial Conflict (1765-1775) on the Enactment of the State Constitutions in Northamerica (1776-1780)
This article aims at unveiling the context in which the first American state constitutions were discussed and enacted. The way in which the colonists reacted to imperial rule was dictated by a claim for equal liberty. This claim was expressed by men who (...)
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Papers
Lucien Jaume :
Methods of Interpretation on Political Texts. The Case of Guizot : Study of a Form of Political Stylistics
The concept of « ideology » has been unduly discarded in contemporary history of political thought. It is in fact necessary to bring it back into play in order to understand the status of many texts purporting to bring about political results as well as (...)
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Book reviews
Jacky Hummel :
Annie Jourdan, La révolution, une exception française, Flammarion, 2006
Les juristes sensibles à l’épaisseur historique et politique du droit constitutionnel ont pu faire leur miel, lors du Bicentenaire de 1989, de publications et de débats soucieux de porter une attention plus grande à la pensée politique de la Révolution (...)
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Archives
François Guizot, De la démocratie en France (1849)
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François Guizot, Histoire des origines du gouvernement représentatif en Europe (1851)
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Les fundamental Orders du Connecticut
Les Ordres fondamentaux du Connecticut (14 janvier 1639) Pour autant qu’il a plu à Dieu Tout Puissant par la sage disposition de sa divine Providence d’ordonner et de disposer les choses de telle sorte que nous les Habitants et Résidents de Windsor, Hartford (...)
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