nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201221-172727-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201221s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201221-172727-0 doi eng 342 23 Rubinelli, Lucia Author aut Constituent Power: A response to critics Rubinelli, Lucia Verfassungsblog 2020-12-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Let me start by expressing my gratitude to the editors of the Verfassung blog and to the contributors to this debate. When I was writing the book, the very idea of it being read sent me into a panic. It still does today, but I am lucky to have found generous and insightful readers in Peter Niesen, Carlos Pérez Crespo, Markus Patberg and Esther Neuhann. Their comments raise both general methodological points and specific historical questions about the chapters. I will try to answer them in turn: I will first engage with the methodological critiques and I will then move to interpretative questions about the story I tell in the book, its protagonists and their historical contexts. The main aim of the book is, as I see it, to explain how the idea of constituent power has been used to make sense of the democratic principle according to which power belongs to the people. [...] CC BY-SA 4.0 Constituent Power Lucia Rubinelli Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/constituent-power-a-response-to-critics/ raw object