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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Pouvoir Constituant

Tamara El Khoury

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
December 2017

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 01 December 2024

Subject(s):
Supremacy — Legitimacy

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
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1. Pouvoir constituant (constituent power) is the power to establish the constitutional order of a nation. From the perspective of legal theory, it is the source of production of constitutional normsie, the power to make a constitution and therefore dictate the fundamental norms that organize the powers of the state (Negri 1). Indeed, the classical theory of pouvoir constituant rests on the distinction between a will that predates the constitution and is superior to it (the constituent power) and the positive constitutional forms created by the constituent subject...
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