nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20161107-103945 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 161106s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20161107-103945 doi eng 342 23 Tourkochoriti, Ioanna Author aut Who Speaks in the Name of the People?   Tourkochoriti, Ioanna Verfassungsblog 2016-11-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The practice of using a referendum to justify the power of the executive has been used and abused throughout history. Napoleon who ruled like a plebiscitarian monarch can serve as the best counter example for contemporary liberal democratic regimes. All the institutions of the government, the executive, the parliament and the judiciary speak in the name of the people in our conception of the western democratic constitutionalism. It is only thanks to the checks and balances that the separation of powers provides in a conception of collaborative constitutionalism that we can avoid practices of misusing references to a supposed democratic legitimacy in view of derailing the operations of the government in a direction that is entirely out of control of democracy itself. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Bonapartism brexit Plebiscite Referendum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/who-speaks-in-the-name-of-the-people/ raw object