#Constitutionalism

2025-07-22

📖 No âmbito de uma estadia de investigação no IHC, Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira publicou o artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".

🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: doi.org/10.1590/2236-463338ed3

#Histodons #PoderesDoEstado #Constituição #SilvestrePinheiroFerreira #DemocraciaLiberal #LiberalDemocracy #Elections #Constitutionalism #Eleições #Democracia #ElectoralPower #PoderEleitoral #LiberalismoPortuguês #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica

Cabeçalho do artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira", de Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira. Publicado no número 38 da revista Almanack. Resumo: "Tido como um dos nomes centrais do pensamento liberal português da primeira metade do século XIX, Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira (1769-1846) escreveu, durante o período em que morou em Paris, o livro Cours de droit public interne et externe (1830), mais tarde adaptado para o português sob o título de Manual do cidadão (1834), textos que consagram o ingresso do autor no debate ocidental referente ao constitucionalismo. Em ambas as obras, Pinheiro Ferreira apresenta seu polêmico “poder eleitoral”, concebido como um ente autônomo que deveria atuar na escolha de funcionários públicos de todas as instâncias do Estado, inclusive dos poderes executivo e judiciário. Este artigo pretende examinar de que maneira tal formulação se relaciona com o pensamento mais geral de Pinheiro Ferreira a respeito do funcionamento dos regimes representativos, bem como pontuar características e comentários tecidos à época e apropriações feitas por intelectuais e grupos políticos em meados do século XIX.". Palavras-chave: "poderes do Estado; constituição; Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".
Riley TraxlerMilitaryminded
2025-07-12


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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Towards #constitutionalism for the Republic of #Armenia" by Syuzanna Vasilyan

[Buenos Aires: Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales, 2002]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/104663

#constitution #verfassung #Armenien

The Max Planck Foundationmpfpr
2025-06-02

@mpfpr delivers a workshop in 🇲🇷 on " and Political Party Regulation: Comparative Experiences," engaging legal experts, policymakers, and scholars.
Generously funded by @AuswaertigesAmt

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mpfpr.de/2025/06/02/workshop-o

2025-02-08

A constitutionalist conservative claims this is not a coup... yet. This kind of tumult is typical of new administrations in the first few weeks before the institutions push back. But we should be legitimately worried if Trump starts ignoring court orders. #coupdetat #constitutionalism #institutions

Opinion | The Breaking of the ...

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2025-02-08

"This is about the separation of powers, not a specific policy. Maybe you think that TikTok should remain online or that the U.S.A.I.D. shutdown makes sense because the government should spend more on Americans and less on foreign aid. But other government branches’ lack of pushback sets a precedent that Trump can act like a king.

Maybe next time he’d undo the Education Department, vaccine programs or food stamps. Or his administration could repurpose federal funds to imprison unauthorized migrants in detention camps. It could, in a far-fetched scenario, take possession of the Gaza Strip. Normally, these are policies on which Congress must get a say.

Nyhan’s research team has surveyed political scientists at American universities about how worried they are right now. During most of Trump’s first term, the respondents’ opinions about the health of our democracy were largely stable. But their confidence has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration."

nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefin

#USA #Trump #USConstitution #Democracy #ChecksAndBalances #Constitutionalism

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐gcvsa@mstdn.plus
2025-01-24

It's very important for Americans to understand that what we need to protect is not #democracy. Our government was specifically designed to thwart democracy for very good reasons.

What we should be trying to preserve is instead #constitutionalism, the premise that our written Constitution limits the power of #government so that democracy cannot trample the natural rights of the individual.

Remember that the Constitution does not bind the people, it binds the government.

Jason J.G. Whitejason@jasonjgw.net
2024-12-01
Here's a recent and interesting lecture from the LSE on social media regulation.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=464a166c-0b47-4d8b-974c-207150390250
#liberalism #constitutionalism #SocialMedia
Bundestag First Said KontextFSBT_Kontext
2024-11-21

tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 196. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 06.11.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20

Jason J.G. Whitejason@jasonjgw.net
2024-10-17
Lawrence Lessig develops an interesting proposal and argument for reform of democratic institutions in this recent lectue at the LSE.
https://www2.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=433a2857-47d6-464f-876d-10f9838769ef
#democracy #AI #SocialMedia #constitutionalism
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐gcvsa@mstdn.plus
2024-07-15

If there is one thing that I would like Americans to understand in 2024, it is that what is at stake in our society is not really #democracy, per se, but the critical mass of #consensus that allows people of disparate backgrounds and beliefs to form a stable civil #government and agree upon the rule of #law, guided by the principles of #constitutionalism—the protection of #equality, #liberty, and #justice, for all people.

archive.is/jj0zR

#USpol #election2024 #politics

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐gcvsa@mstdn.plus
2024-06-05

There's a passage in this article that's both right and wrong. Screenshot/excerpt in the alt text for space reasons.

It's true that attacking #education has the effect of degrading civic compassion, the aim is not the destruction of #democracy, but the destruction of #constitutionalism, the idea of the #EqualProtection of the #CivilRights of the minority in the face of the #TyrannyOfTheMajority. #Fascists always believe themselves to be #democratic.

newrepublic.com/article/181274

Education in a liberal democracy introduces students to the diverse perspectives through a nation’s history, in order for people to foster a kind of empathy and understanding for one another; what my father in his work called civic compassion. Democracy is a system where we let ourselves be affected by our fellow citizens’ perspectives. Cutting students off from exposure to the perspectives of their neighbors therefore preempts democracy. Such erasures are more conducive to an education for authoritarianism, where an autocratic leader can more easily set groups against one another, relying on mutual estrangement and mutual misunderstanding. “Parents’ rights” is an expression used to cover for an illiberal public culture. Using the language of rights and freedoms to erase oppressed groups’ perspectives is a familiar vocabulary trick from America’s past (“states’ rights”). 

https://newrepublic.com/article/181274/end-civic-compassion
Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-06-04

#OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing # government.

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2024-05-11

#AI #Algorithms #Constitutionalism: "People aren’t perfect. Neither ethics training for AI engineers nor legislation by woefully uninformed politicians can change that simple truth. I don’t need to assume that Big Tech chief executives are bad actors or that large companies are malevolent to understand that what is in their self-interest is not always in mine. The framers of the US Constitution recognised this simple truth and sought to leverage human nature for a greater good. The Constitution didn’t simply assume people would always act towards that greater good. Instead it defined a dynamic mechanism — self-interest and the balance of power — that would force compromise and good governance. Its vision of treating people as real actors rather than better angels produced one of the greatest frameworks for governance in history."

ft.com/content/b16fab3e-7f19-4

2023-07-26

Out now, with the chance to read the first chapter for free: it is the continuation of my reflections on constitutionalism in my previous book on 'The Foundations of the EU As A Polity' #Constitutionalism #Democracy #LegalTheory

2023-07-14

"To Buchetmann, #Hegel is not a proto-fascist or proto-Marxist, but an indefatigable opponent of #aristocracy and supporter of #Constitutionalism." liberalcurrents.com/placing-he

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2023-04-15

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion

2023-03-13

The proof copy of my new book on 'The EU and Constitutional Time - The Significance of Time in Constitutional Change' is almost ready #constitutionalism #constitutionaltime #legitimateauthority e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-eu-an

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2023-03-03

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

#Constitutionalism #representativerepublic #preamble

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