After the Dred Scott decision in 1857, Abraham Lincoln embarked on a public campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery in the federal territories. Lincoln’s opposition to Dred Scott was, however, bound up with a certain theoretical orientation that is often rejected in the general milieu of modern constitutional theory. Within the context of two recent revisionist accounts of slavery and Amer...

In terms of the dynamics state system’s reforms, Central Asian Kyrgyzstan is a unique case. 2005, 2010, and 2020 series crises power, referred to as „revolutions”, unfolded there. Among their consequences were constitutional reforms that concerned legal construction main organs. The latest reform 2021 brought an end semi-presidential system established domination president over system. analysis...

The international legal order, although pluralist in structure, is in the process of being constitutionalized. This article supports this claim in several different ways. In the Part L I argue that most accepted understandings of "constitution" would readily apply to at least some international regimes. In Part II, I discuss different notions of "constitutional pluralism," and demonstrate that ...

Abstract Notwithstanding the political origins of constitutionalism in west and leading role played by United States creation new global order after WWII, this origin constitutional project does not undermine claims to universality underlying it. After laying out a basic account some core theoretical premises guiding constitutionalism, article presents series genealogical reflections, which is ...

This article presents a legal history of US citizenship in Guam. I argue that members Guam’s Congress mobilizing for the 1930s and immediate aftermath World War II offer powerful instructive example popular constitutionalism, or interactive, extrajudicial process generates constitutional meaning. Guamanians made claims to naval leaders lawmakers, arguing colonized people living empire should be...