Direct citizen participation in the constitutional reform
This paper aims at analysing the role that direct citizen participation plays in democratic constitutional reforms. In opposition to a non-normative model, typical of those systems which conceive the people as the real sovereign, this paper argues that the direct participation of the citizenry –whic...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI) |
| Repository: | RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/57833 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10651/57833 https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.113755 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Constitutional amendment Constitutional reform Direct citizen participation Popular sovereignty |
| Summary: | This paper aims at analysing the role that direct citizen participation plays in democratic constitutional reforms. In opposition to a non-normative model, typical of those systems which conceive the people as the real sovereign, this paper argues that the direct participation of the citizenry –which can take place at the input (deliberation) or at the output (decision) of the reform process– only makes sense if understood as a legal mechanism aimed at reinforcing the own sovereignty of the legal system itself and thus democracy. |
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