Language, Democracy, and the Paradox of Constituent Power

Language, Democracy, and the Paradox of Constituent Power

Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2021

180

Mole

Inglês

9781138606876

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1. The Speaking Sovereign 2. Declarations of independence as proto-legal performatives 3. America's Declaration of Independence as index case 4. Poetic prophecy in Ireland's 1916 Proclamation of the Republic 5. Canada's Secession Reference and the trickiness of sovereign speech 6. Scotland's festival of democracy 7. Paradox, riddles, and the Saturnalia of language 8. Conclusion: Moving in the gap