Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere : A Critical Study of Bentham's Constitutionalism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Part 1: A Reconstruction of Bentham's Constitutionalism -- 2. Sovereignty and the Nature of the Normativity of Law -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 3. The Relativity and Plurality of Sovereignty -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 4. The Role of the People in determining Constitutional Limits I - A Democratic Reading of A Fragment on Government -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 5. The Role of the People in determining Constitutional Limits II - Mature Constitutional Theory -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- 6. The Public Opinion Tribunal - an Analysis of Consensus Formation and the Evolution of Communities -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Part 2: Utility, Indeterminacy and Harm -- 7. The Dynamic Connection between Ethics and Politics -- I -- II -- 8. Contemporary Attempts to Bridge the Gap between Ethics and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book, based on a close reading of Bentham's texts, is mainly concerned with critical constitutionalism.