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Desobediencia civil y participación política. Unas cuestiones abiertas para las democracias constitucionales (y la teoría del derecho)
2015
In this article I try to show some problems of the interpretation of civil disobedience as a practice that aims to maintain democratic principles against discriminative legal patterns or oligarchic forces. I will present two doctrines, the Rawlsian (followed by Habermas) and the one proposed recently by supporters of a radical constitutional change through the exercise of “constituent power”. The Rawlsian account a) offers a too stringent model of justification of this type of practice and b) does not recognize the plurality of subjects to which civil disobedience appeal. The supporters of radical constitutional change fall into a form of heterogony of ends. They reject liberal accounts of …
THE AMBIGUITIES OF « GRANTED CONSTITUTIONALISM » : A TRANSATLANTIC DEBATE (II)
2017
After France, and before Brazil, the second article concerns Portugal. The portuguese legal framework was appropriate to stem the birth of the constituent power. Reconstructed on the basis of an apocryphal transcription of its founding pact, the Cortes of Lamego of 1143, the portuguese public law benefited on top of a written document born in the XVth century, the Ordenações. This double peculiarity, making "iberian liberties" a model of the ancient constitutionalism, explains the reverential respect for these medieval borders and the hatred following Dom Pedro's granting in 1826. In these conditions, and in spite of the program followed by a "granting power" which refuses to define itself …
Have the constitutions of the new latin american constitutionalism succeeded?
2018
Resumen Desde la decada de los noventa del siglo pasado, America Latina esta experimentando un ciclo de procesos constituyentes democraticos que suele conocerse en la doctrina como nuevo constitucionalismo. Decadas despues de su aprobacion, cabe analizar criticamente los efectos de esta corriente que buscaba mejorar la situacion social, democratizar la politica y transformar el Estado. El presente articulo de investigacion se plantea cuatro preguntas: 1. ?Las Constituciones han servido para mejorar las condiciones de bienestar de los ciudadanos?; 2. ?Se ha podido limitar el poder de los organos constituidos?; 3. ?Ha disminuido la desigualdad y la pobreza?; 4. ?Ha mejorado la situacion de lo…
LES ÉQUIVOQUES DU « CONSTITUTIONNALISME OCTROYÉ » : UN DÉBAT TRANSATLANTIQUE (I)
2015
In Portugal and in its former colonies, the expression "constitucionalismo outorgado » is part of the constitutional vocabulary since the granting of the Charter of 1826. The French inspiration is obvious ; however, no equivalent expression exists in France. This curiosity leads to measure all the ambiguity of the concept of "granted constitutionalism", an improbable oxymoron according to the president of the Portuguese Republic, Teófilo Braga. Is it about a simple political and linguistic claim, a temporary compromise at the end of a frustrated Revolution? Or does it translate a deeper program, to reconcile both sides of the constitutionalism, ancient and modern ?
Juridiskā zinātne, Nr. 11
2018
The publishing of Journal “Law” of the University of Latvia is financed by the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. The publishing of issue No. 11 is supported by “Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns” Law Office.
L'ordine, dal centro ai margini: a proposito della ripubblicazione di due testi di Costantino Mortati
2022
In questo articolo, offro una ricostruzione della concezione dell’ordinamento giuridico, dello sta- to e della costituzione materiale di Costantino Mortati, mostrando la evoluzione da essa subita nel corso degli anni. Mi soffermo in particolare su due aspetti: sulla natura di “fatto normativo” della volontà delle forze politiche dominanti che, secondo Mortati, sostiene la costituzione ma- teriale dello stato; e sul modo in cui Mortati applica la sua concezione alla fase di formazione e di mutamento della costituzione materiale, e ai periodi di indebolimento dell’unità politica. In this article I propose a reconstruction of Costantino Mortati’s view of the legal order, the state and the mate…
The ambiguities of "granted constitutionalism" : a transatlantic debate (III)
2018
Our journey ends in Brazil. According to textbooks of constitutional history, this "periphery" country, recently independent, looked with envy at the European and North American constitutional novelties, not without trying to maintain its identity. Olhos na Europa, pés na América? Doubtless ; still it is necessary to measure the extent of this "Europe", admired in space as in time. The doctrine, criticizing the granted Constitution of 1824, qualified of nominal, had too long hid the reality, even the efficiency, of a constitutionalism in singular outlines, which involves both social and institutional engineering, thus not reducible to the modern constitutionalism. The political actors of Br…
Le constitutionnalisme octroyé - itinéraire d'un interconstitutionnalisme au XIXe siècle (France, Portugal, Brésil)
2019
This book could have been a simple history of constituent power in the 19th century, in countries that experienced the return of the king after tumultuous revolutionary episodes. It is, in part; the reader will find in it the legal and political debates on this question during the periods of contestation of national sovereignty in three deliberately selected countries: the Bourbon Restoration for France; the tumultuous monarchy of Portugal, from the granting of the constitutional Charter in 1826 to its fall in 1910; the Empire of Brazil, since the independence. However, we thought it would be useful to propose something else, by shedding new light on the little-studied phenomenon of granted…