Plurinationality and mutation of constituent power
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https://doi.org/10.19135/revista.consinter.00020.10Keywords:
Comparative Law, Constitutionalism, Constituent Power, Latin America, Constituent MutationAbstract
The continuous adoption of new constitutional texts by the majority of Latin American states since 1980, in addition to expressing the transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy, presents innovative elements to the theory of constituent power of a liberal matrix originally systematized by Abbé Sieyès, in his work "What is the Third Estate?". Using a comparative law study to analyze this phenomenon of constitutional renewal, it was observed that the institute of legal pluralism evolved into multiculturalism and, finally, resulted in the creation of a new institute, plurinationality. This dynamic, although ordinarily described by the doctrine as "neo-constitutionalism", in fact seems to suggest the normative recognition of a kind of hybrid manifestation of the constituent power, a phenomenon related to the mutation of its essence, which is called "constituent mutation".
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