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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Law Legitimacy Power by Edited by Professor Richard Albert
This book contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman’s path-breaking book iRevolutionary Constitutions. /iThe book alsoi /ifeatures a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to the contributions.i /iSome contributors advance Ackerman’s theory others attack it and others refine it—but all agree that the ideas in the book reset the terms of debate on important subjects in constitutionalism: from the promise and perils of populism to the causes and consequences of democratic backsliding from the optimal models of constitutional design to the forms and limits of constitutional amendment and from the role of courts in politics to how we identify when the mythical “people” have spoken.