Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-368) and index.

Constituent power and reflexive identity : towards an ontology of co llective selfhood / Hans Lindahl -- Constituent power subverted : from English constitutional argument to British constitutional practice / Ma rtin Loughlin -- Constituent power and constitutional change in America n constitutionalism / Stephen M. Griffin -- Constituent power in France : the revolution and its consequences / Lucien Jaume -- 'We are (afrai d or) the people' : constituent power in German constitutionalism / Chr istoph Mollers -- People and elites in republican constitutions, tradit ional and modern / John P. McCormick -- The politics of the question of constituent power / David Dyzenhaus -- Private and public autonomy rev isited : Habermas' concept of co-originality in times of globalization and the militant security state / Rainer Nickel -- Constitutionalism's post-modern opening / Paolo Carrozza -- Against substitution : the cons titutional thinking of dissensus / Emilios Christodoulidis -- The exerc ise of constituent power in Central and Eastern Europe / Ulrich K. Preu ss -- 'We the peoples' : constituent power and constitutionalism in plu rinational states / Stephen Tierney -- Post-constituent constitutionali sm? : the case of the European Union / Neil Walker -- 'We the peoples o f the United Nations' : constituent power and constitutional form in in ternational law / Bardo Fassbender -- Constituent power and the plurali st ethic / Damian Chalmers -- The imperialism of modern constitutional democracy / James Tully.