From the past to the future: A contemporary reflection on the temporal aspects of sovereignty in the philosophy of Benjamin Constant KU Leuven
There seems to be a gap between the commonsensical appreciation of sovereignty and its institutional reality. A sovereign people is supposed to have full legal and political power over itself, yet this collective sovereignty is most often institutionalized in the form of a constitutional and representative democracy. This means that legal and political power are constrained by binding constitutional rights and rules and that decisions are ...