TY - BOOK ID - 85917684 TI - Sovereignty, civic participation, and constitutional law : the people versus the nation in Belgium AU - Deseure, Brecht AU - Geenens, Raf AU - Sottiaux, Stefan PY - 2021 SN - 9781003039525 1003039529 9781000375039 100037503X 9781000375022 1000375021 9780367483593 0367483599 9780367712280 0367712288 PB - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Political participation KW - Constitutional law KW - Representative government and representation KW - Sovereignty. KW - Constituent power KW - Constitutional history KW - Legislative power KW - Sovereignty KW - State sovereignty (International relations) KW - International law KW - Political science KW - Common heritage of mankind (International law) KW - International relations KW - Self-determination, National KW - Parliamentary government KW - Political representation KW - Representation KW - Self-government KW - Democracy KW - Elections KW - Republics KW - Suffrage KW - Citizen participation KW - Community action KW - Community involvement KW - Community participation KW - Involvement, Community KW - Mass political behavior KW - Participation, Citizen KW - Participation, Community KW - Participation, Political KW - Political activity KW - Political behavior KW - Political rights KW - Social participation KW - Political activists KW - Politics, Practical KW - Law and legislation KW - Political participation. KW - Representative government and representation. KW - Belgium. 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Droit constitutionnel KW - Régimes représentatifs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85917684 AB - This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory. Throughout the Western world, there are increasing calls for greater citizen participation. Referendums, citizen councils, and other forms of direct democracy are considered necessary antidotes to a growing hostility towards traditional party politics. This book focuses on the Belgian debate, where the introduction of participatory politics has stalled because of an ambiguity in the Constitution. Scholars and judges generally claim that the Belgian Constitution gives ultimate power to the Nation, which can only speak through representation in parliament. In light of this, direct democracy would be an unconstitutional power grab by the current generation of citizens. This book critically investigates this received interpretation of the Constitution and, by reaching back to the debates among Belgium's 1831 founding fathers, concludes that it is untenable. The spirit, if not the text, of the Belgian Constitution allows for more popular participation than present-day jurisprudence admits. Combining new insights from law, history, and political science, this book is a showcase for continental constitutional theory. The questions it asks reverberate far beyond Belgium. The book provides a rare source of information on Belgium's 1831 Constitution, which was in its time seen as modern constitutionalism's greatest triumph which became a model for countless other constitutions. -- ER -