Ferrara, Alessandro, 1953-

Legitimation by constitution : a dialogue on political liberalism / Alessandro Ferrara, Frank I. Michelman. - First edition. - 1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages). - Oxford constitutional theory Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford constitutional theory. Oxford scholarship online. .

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Legitimation by constitution' is a phrase coined by Michelman and Ferrara to represent an idea in Rawlsian political liberalism of reliance on a dualist democracy: ground-level laws are subject to the constraints of a legal constitution that all citizens, across the political spectrum, can accept as a framework for their collective politics.

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Liberalism.
Democracy.

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