Constitutional Values as Legitimation Formulas: a systems theoretical critique

Constitutional values are too unstable and conflictual to provide for normative foundations of constitutional organisations. Values actually may become sources of legitimacy deficits and even illegitimacies themselves. National and post-national constitutions, therefore, require further institution-building and constitution-making to transform values into autonomous structures and semantics such as constitutional rights and supranational or transnational constituent polities....

Panel 169, WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 2018 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM