Constitutional democracy: A paradoxical union of contradictory principles?

Political Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 766-781

  Habermas, Jürgen ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0035540178     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591701029006002     Document Type: Article

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1. [Habermas uses a number of terms to express the idea of the rule of law or constitutionalism (taken as equivalent for the purposes of this essay). The most literal is Herrschaft der Gesetze, which I always translate as "rule of law." Rechtsstaat, the literal meaning of which is "law state, "may be rendered either as "constitutional state" or "rule of law." To distinguish Rechtsstaatlichkeit, I translate it as "constitutionalism" or "government by law." Note, by the way, that the German word for "constitution" is Verfassung. - Translator]
2. See Jürgen Habermas, "On the Internal Relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy, "Inclusion of the Other, ed. C. Cronin and P. DeGreiff (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), chap. 10.
3. 1. Maus, Zur Aufklärung der Demokratietheorie (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1992).
4. Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties, trans. M. J. Gregor (New York: Abaris, 1979), 151 (Ak. ed. VII, 84).
5. Frank Michelman, Brennan and Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).
6. Michelman, Brennan and Democracy, 59.
7. [See Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Robert Post, Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Jürgen Habermas's views are most fully elaborated in his Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. William Rehg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). - Translator]
8. [See Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Robert Post, Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Jürgen Habermas's views are most fully elaborated in his Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. William Rehg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). - Translator]
9. [See Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Robert Post, Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Jürgen Habermas's views are most fully elaborated in his Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. William Rehg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). - Translator]
10. Frank Michelman, "Constitutional Authorship, "Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations, ed. L. Alexander (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 64-98 at 90.
11. See Habermas, Between Facts and Norms.
12. Michelman, "Constitutional Authorship, "91; cf. Frank Michelman's review of Habermas, "Between Facts and Norms, "Journal of Philosophy 93 (1996): 307-15; also Jürgen Habermas, "Democracy and Positive Liberty, "Boston Review 21 (1996): 3-8.
13. Michelman, "Constitutional Authorship, "91; cf. Frank Michelman's review of Habermas, "Between Facts and Norms, "Journal of Philosophy 93 (1996): 307-15; also Jürgen Habermas, "Democracy and Positive Liberty, "Boston Review 21 (1996): 3-8.
14. Michelman, "Constitutional Authorship, "91; cf. Frank Michelman's review of Habermas, "Between Facts and Norms, "Journal of Philosophy 93 (1996): 307-15; also Jürgen Habermas, "Democracy and Positive Liberty, "Boston Review 21 (1996): 3-8.
15. Michelman, "Constitutional Authorship, "81.
16. Jürgen Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Communication, ed. M. Cooke (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), chap. 7.