nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200226-225203-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200226s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200226-225203-0 doi eng 342 23 Abraham, David Author aut Class, Identity and “We the People” Abraham, David Verfassungsblog 2020-02-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The great marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm observed that the “long 19th century” repeatedly posed the question of “who is the people” while the “short 20th century” attempted to answer the question – often in the most bloody and regressive ways. It has been one of U. K. Preuss’s great contributions to grapple with and explain how constitutions have attempted to conceptualize and vindicate “the people” within a liberal and democratic order that can free us from those bloody and regressive ways. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Pouvoir Constituant The People Volk Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/class-identity-and-we-the-people/ raw object