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The research question of 'Constituent Power. A History' is framed in the book‘s introduction as a critical mission in intellectual history, as Rubinelli identifies a major confusion in recent works on the historiography of political thought. A small industry has sprung up in recent years to backdate the advent of constituent power to the middle ages and even to antiquity. Authors claim to have discovered an employment of the concept in texts dating back to before the term became historically available in Emmanuel Sieyès. Rubinelli is surely right to castigate the anachromisms involved, and referring to Aristotle, Marsilius or Machiavelli, Bodin, Spinoza or Hobbes as early adapters to a timeless concept of constituent power seems misguided, but perhaps for other than her stated methodological reason, that we need to attend to the usage of the term because there is no determinate and stable concept of constituent power. CC BY-SA 4.0 Niesen, Peter Constituent Power Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Lucia Rubinelli 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/extinguishing-the-burning-embers-rubinelli-on-sieyes/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20201219-172844-0 201219 10.17176/20201219-172844-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)