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