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SUMMARY:**NB changed time** Making Constituent Power Safe for Democracy
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LOCATION:Monash Clayton Campus\, Melbourne\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:<p>**NB changed time! 4.30-5.30pm\, due to flight delays. sorry for the late notice**</p>\n\n<p>This paper offers a synthetic overview of the main points advanced in&nbsp\;<em>Sovereignty Across Generations</em>. &nbsp\;The book develops a Rawlsian theory of democratic sovereignty grounded in the idea of constituent power&nbsp\;as not unbound\, but &lsquo\;under law&rsquo\;\, i.e. responsive to the normativity of what is &lsquo\;most reasonable for us&rsquo\; due to its congruence &lsquo\;with our deeper understanding of ourselves and our <em>aspirations</em>&rsquo\;.</p>\n<p>Constituent power is vested in &lsquo\;the people&rsquo\; not as a one-time founding subject\, but as&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;transgenerational&nbsp\;author of a&nbsp\;constitutional project\, in which each generation co-authors the constitution alongside those past and preserving the equal freedom of future generations. This &lsquo\;sequential&rsquo\; understanding of democratic sovereignty is argued by Ferrara to safeguard a democratic polity from three possible consequences of the opposite &lsquo\;serial&rsquo\; view\, famously articulated by Rousseau and Jefferson and now hijacked by populism. The sequential view does so by positing the people&rsquo\;s transgenerational political project as &lsquo\;implicitly unamendable&rsquo\; even in the absence of explicit eternity clauses. Ferrara aims to improve Rawls&rsquo\;s case for implicit unamendability by introducing the concept of <em>vertical reciprocity</em>: each living segment of a people is under the obligation to relate in terms of reciprocity to <em>all</em> the free and equal generations.</p>\n<p>The point of foregrounding the temporality of democratic legitimacy\, i.e.\, sovereignty &lsquo\;over time&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;across generations&rsquo\;\, is to offer a compelling framework for sustaining a just and stable society amid the challenges of rising populism.</p>\n<p>This seminar is co-sponsored by Monash University Department of Politics\, School of Social Sciences.</p>\n<p>Join Zoom meeting:</p>\n<p>https://monash.zoom.us/j/86351045263?pwd=1gHMLhmDnXiFJIV0Jl8s6GxhgBgylb.1&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Meeting ID: 863 5104 5263 // Passcode: 184791</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandra Leonie Field;CN=Matteo Bonotti:
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