Comparative Law and “Revolutionary” Constitutionalism

DI MASSIMO LA TORRE

ABSTRACT – The article further develops a paper given at the Conference

“The Legitimacy of European Constitutional Orders”, University of Trento (24-

28 May 2021) a conference moving from the reading of Professor Bruce

Ackerman’s latest book, Revolutionary Constitutions. Charismatic Leadership

and the Rule of Law (Cambridge, Mass. 2019). Starting from a comparative

perspective the article critically evaluates the thesis which claims the

existence of an evolutionary movement internal to the evolutionary idealtype

of constitution and the atemporal categorical framework provided by

Ackerman.

KEYWORDS – Constitutionalism, Revolutionary Constitution, Ackerman,

comparative law

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