Sieyès and the spirit of the “jury constitutionnaire”: a reinterpretation

Authors

  • Lucien Jaume Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i3.175

Keywords:

Sièyes, Constant, legislative power, sovereignty, neutral power

Abstract

Firstly, we will show how the idea of judicial review appeared at the beginning of the French Revolution, against the main idea of “légicentrisme”, because it was supported by Sieyès in other different basis, and during the Third Year … We will also show some Constant’s original thoughts about the “judicial power of other powers” and, finally, the “neutral power” of the Chef of the State, as a kind of a Great constitutional watcher maker.

Submission date: 07/02/2002
Acceptance date: 12/04/2002

Author Biography

Lucien Jaume, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Catedrático de filosofía, Director de Investigación en el CNRS (laboratorio del CEVIPOF), profesor de Sciences Po (Paris) y de la Ecole Européenne d’Etudes Avancées de Naples (sección Derecho). Miembro del Comité Director de publicación de las Oeuvres complètes de Benjamin Constant (Max Niemeyer éditeur), del Consejo de Administración de la Association Française des Constitutionnalistes y de la Association Française de Science Politique. Forma parte del Comité Científico de varias revistas en Francia, Inglaterra, Italia y España. Entre otros muchos trabajos, es autor de Le discours jacobin et la démocratie (1989), El jacobinismo y el Estado moderno (1990), L’individu effacé ou le paradoxe du libéralisme français (1997), La liberté et la loi. Les origines philosophiques du libéralisme (2000).

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Issue

No. 3 (2002): Historia Constitucional N. 3 (2002)

Section

Europe

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