Language, Democracy, and the Paradox of Constituent Power

Language, Democracy, and the Paradox of Constituent Power

Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

Frost, Catherine

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2021

192

Dura

Inglês

9781138606869

15 a 20 dias

390

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1. The Speaking Sovereign 2. Declarations of independence as proto-legal performatives 3. America's Declaration of Independence as index case 4. Poetic prophecy in Ireland's 1916 Proclamation of the Republic 5. Canada's Secession Reference and the trickiness of sovereign speech 6. Scotland's festival of democracy 7. Paradox, riddles, and the Saturnalia of language 8. Conclusion: Moving in the gap
Catherine Frost;Political Theory;Democratic Theory;Constitutionalism;Political History;Constituent Power;Theories of Representation;Theories of Communication;Global Intellectualism;International Relations;Global Law;Modern Legal Theory;Comparative Constitutionalism;Declaration of Independence;Law, Linguistics and Politics;Hannah Arendt;Emmanuel Joseph SieyA?s;AbbA (c) SieyA?s;Irish Politics;Republic of Ireland;1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic;Canadian Politics;Canadian Founding;Scottish Politics;Language, Politics & Political Theory;Scottish Independence Movement;Founding Speech;American Founding;Jacques Derrida;Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes;Bonnie Honig;Abbe Sieyes;Performative Declarations;Pyrrhic Performativity;Fabulous Retroactivity;Popular Voice;Declaratory Founding;Trickster Stories;Austinian Performativity;Political Beginning;Performative Model;Canadian Legal History;Independence Work;Performative Operation;Constituent language;Irish Proclamation;Early Irish Law;Contemporary politics;Canadian Constitutionalism;American Declaration;Gaelic Revival;Declarations of independence;Arendt 1968a;SNP;Sovereign Speech;Scotland's Future;Public Engagement;Folk Paradigm;Scottish Independence;Manitoba Legislature