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.