Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Legal and Political Constitutionalism......Page 13
PART I Legal constitutionalism......Page 25
1 Constitutional rights and the limits of judicial review......Page 27
I Constitutional rights and ‘the circumstances of justice’......Page 29
II Constitutional rights and ‘the circumstances of politics’......Page 32
III The tyranny of the minority: why judicial review fails to take rights seriously......Page 38
IV The culture of rights......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 63
2 The rule of law and the rule of persons......Page 64
The rule of law and the circumstances of politics......Page 66
Arbitrary rule and rule by law......Page 69
II Legal rule......Page 78
Hayek: going by the rulebook......Page 79
Dworkin: judging on principle......Page 86
III Political rule......Page 91
The politics of the rule of law......Page 92
Democratising the judiciary......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 100
3 Constitutionalism and democracy......Page 102
I Constitutional democracy: substantive views......Page 104
Dworkin and the substantive rights of citizenship......Page 105
Rawls and the citizens’ contract......Page 112
Policing the democratic process: J. H. Ely......Page 119
Nemo iudex in sua causa: breaking themonopoly of democracy’s winners over the means of their success......Page 130
The substance of procedures: the Burt–Ginsburg view......Page 132
Substantive procedures: Habermas and the preconditions of democratic discourse......Page 138
Constitutional politics: Bruce Ackerman’s We the People......Page 141
Popular constitutionalism......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 153
PART II Political constitutionalism......Page 155
4 The norms of political constitutionalism: non-domination and political equality......Page 157
I Depoliticising the constitution as a source of domination......Page 159
Republicanism, liberalism and constitutionalism......Page 166
Freedom as non-interference......Page 168
Freedom as non-domination......Page 171
Equal concern and respect......Page 174
Republicanism and substantive legal constitutionalism......Page 175
Republicanism and procedural legal constitutionalism......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 186
5 The forms of political constitutionalism: public reason and the balance of power......Page 188
I The political forms of republicanism and the ‘circumstances of politics’......Page 189
Substantive accounts of public reasoning......Page 191
Objectivity and public reasoning......Page 192
Rawls and the public reason of the constitution......Page 196
Democratic deliberation through public reason......Page 200
Procedural accounts of public reasoning......Page 203
III The balance of power......Page 207
Conclusion......Page 220
6 Bringing together norms and forms: the democratic constitution......Page 221
I Non-domination and political equality......Page 222
The equal consideration of interests and the circumstances of politics......Page 224
Equal outcomes: democracy and welfarist views of non-arbitrary rule......Page 226
Equal process: democratic participation as non-arbitrariness......Page 230
II Public reason......Page 233
Equal votes......Page 235
Majority rule......Page 237
III The balance of power......Page 242
IV The constitutionality of legislative politics......Page 251
Controlling the executive: courts versus legislatures......Page 255
Hard cases? States of emergency and the politically powerless......Page 261
Conclusion......Page 271
Conclusion......Page 272
Index......Page 276