Prescindamos del poder constituyente en la creación constitucional: los límites conceptuales del poder para reemplazar o reformar una constitución

Carlos Bernal-Pulido

doi:10.18042/cepc/aijc.22.03

Prescindamos del poder constituyente en la creación constitucional: los límites conceptuales del poder para reemplazar o reformar una constitución

Translated title of the contribution: Constitution-making (without) constituent power: on the conceptual boundaries of the power to replace or amend the Constitution

Carlos Bernal-Pulido

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Abstract

This article makes a case against the wide-spread conception of the constitution-making power as constituent power. A conceptual analysis of the power to replace or revise the constitution shows that this understanding is incorrect. Instead, the article advances a socio-ontological conception of the power to replace or revise a written constitution, as a limited deontic power of citizens’ political proxy-agents, who are collectively intentionally recognized as having the status of constitution-makers for performing the function of institutionalizing constitutionalism. This conception illuminates a clearer approach to understand the constitution-making power, and to evaluate the legitimacy of its exercises.

Translated title of the contribution	Constitution-making (without) constituent power: on the conceptual boundaries of the power to replace or amend the Constitution
Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	59-99
Number of pages	41
Journal	Anuario Iberoamericano de Justicia Constitucional
Volume	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/aijc.22.03
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

constitution-making
constituent power
constitutional change
constitutional replacement
constitutional revision
constitutional amendment

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