Prehistory of populist constitutionalism: Difference between revisions
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==Aristotle== |
==Aristotle== |
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<blockquote>μᾶλλον ἀδιάφθορον τὸ πολύ - καθάπερ ὕδωρ τὸ πλεῖον, οὕτω καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ὀλίγων ἀδιαφθορώτερον.<ref>Aristotle, ''Politics'', 1286a.</ref></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>The multitude is more incorruptible - just as the larger stream of water is purer, so the mass of citizens is less corruptible than the few.<ref>.</ref></blockquote> |
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==Maximilien Robespierre== |
==Maximilien Robespierre== |
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<blockquote>Toute institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon, et le magistrat corruptible, est vicieuse.<ref>.</ref></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>Every institution which does not suppose the people good and the magistrate corruptible, is wrong.<ref>.</ref></blockquote> |
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==Alexis de Tocqueville== |
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<blockquote>[T]he judicial power [...] slows, it cannot stop the people, because the latter by changing the constitution can always arrive at what they desire.<ref>Alexis de Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America. Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique'', ed. Eduardo Nolla, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010, p. 167 (note b).</ref></blockquote> |
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==Theodore Roosevelt== |
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<blockquote>[T]he majority of the plain people of the U.S. will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them.<ref>.</ref></blockquote> |
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==Eleftherios Venizelos== |
==Eleftherios Venizelos== |
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<blockquote>[Ε]ίναι αίρεσις να λέτε μέσα εις ένα Πολιτικόν Σώμα ότι ο καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου ημπορεί να έχη την εγκυροτέραν γνώμην εις ένα ζήτημα από όλους.<ref>.</ref></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>.<ref>The translation is by the author.</ref></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>[Ε]ίναι αίρεσις να λέτε μέσα εις ένα Πολιτικόν Σώμα ότι ο καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου ημπορεί να έχη την εγκυροτέραν γνώμην εις ένα ζήτημα από όλους.<ref>.</ref></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>.<ref>The translation is by the author.</ref></blockquote> |
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==Υποσημειώσεις== |
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Long before the coining of the terms populist constitutionalism, popular constitutionalism, and constitutional populism, jurists as well as political actors and thinkers had already explored the ideas and policies that are usually associated with this concept: criticism of the separation of law and politics, anti-elitism, anti-institutionalism (anti-establisment), anti-pluralism, illiberalism, popular sovereignty, direct democracy, authentic popular representation, extreme majoritarianism, strong leadership, personification of power, strengthening of executive power, instrumentalization of law.
Aristotle
μᾶλλον ἀδιάφθορον τὸ πολύ - καθάπερ ὕδωρ τὸ πλεῖον, οὕτω καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ὀλίγων ἀδιαφθορώτερον.[1]
Translation:
The multitude is more incorruptible - just as the larger stream of water is purer, so the mass of citizens is less corruptible than the few.[2]
Maximilien Robespierre
Toute institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon, et le magistrat corruptible, est vicieuse.[3]
Translation:
Every institution which does not suppose the people good and the magistrate corruptible, is wrong.[4]
Alexis de Tocqueville
.[5]
Translation:
[T]he judicial power [...] slows, it cannot stop the people, because the latter by changing the constitution can always arrive at what they desire.[6]
Theodore Roosevelt
[T]he majority of the plain people of the U.S. will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them.[7]
Eleftherios Venizelos
[Ε]ίναι αίρεσις να λέτε μέσα εις ένα Πολιτικόν Σώμα ότι ο καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου ημπορεί να έχη την εγκυροτέραν γνώμην εις ένα ζήτημα από όλους.[8]
Translation:
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[Ε]ίναι αίρεσις να λέτε μέσα εις ένα Πολιτικόν Σώμα ότι ο καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου ημπορεί να έχη την εγκυροτέραν γνώμην εις ένα ζήτημα από όλους.[10]
Translation:
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Υποσημειώσεις
- ↑ Aristotle, Politics, 1286a.
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- ↑ Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique, ed. Eduardo Nolla, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010, p. 167 (note b).
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- ↑ The translation is by the author.
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- ↑ The translation is by the author.