Legislatures as constituent assemblies

The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 181-197

  Elster, Jon ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511511035.011     Document Type: Chapter

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2. Jon Elster, Ulysses Unbound (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) at ch. II
3. Richard H. Thaler and Hersh M. Shefrin, “An economic theory of self-control” in Richard H. Thaler, ed., Quasi-Rational Economics (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001) 77.
4. Arnaud Le Pillouer, Les pouvoirs non-constituants des assemblées constituantes (Paris: Dalloz, 2005) at 103, 106.
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6. John E. Finn, Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) at 5.
7. Jon Elster, “The impact of constitutions on economic performance” in Proceedings from the Annual Bank Conference on Economic Development (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995) 209 at 209-26.
8. Paul Bastid, Le gouvernement d’assemblée (Paris: Editions Cujas, 1956) at 216.
9. Mary-Jo Kline, Gouverneur Morris and the New Nation, 1775-1788 (New York: Arno Press, 1978) at 54-6.
10. Mark W. Kruman, Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997) at 28-9.
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12. Ruth F. Necheles, “The Curés in the Estates General of 1789” (1974) 46 J. Mod. Hist. 425 at 427.
13. Jon Elster, “Transition, constitution-making and separation in Czechoslovakia” (1995) 36 Archives Européennes de Sociologie 105.
14. Jeremy Bentham, Michael James, et al., eds., Political Tactics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) at 29.
15. Robert A. McGuire and Robert L. Ohsfeldt, “An economic model of voting behavior over specific issues at the constitutional convention of 1787” (1986) 46 J. Econ. Hist. 79 at 102.
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19. “Constitution-making: A rational choice model of the Federal Convention of 1787” (1988) 32 Am. J. of Pol. Sci. 483.
20. Jon Elster, “Mimicking impartiality” in Keith Dowding, Robert Goodin, and Carole Pateman, eds., Justice and Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) 112 at 119-20.
21. Adrian Vermeule, “Veil of ignorance rules in constitutional law” (2001) 111 Yale L.J. 399.
22. Jon Elster, “Strategic uses of argument” in K. Arrow et al., eds., Barriers to the Negotiated Resolution of Conflict (New York: Norton, 1995) 236 at 251-2.
23. Mme de Stäel, Considérations sur la Révolution Française (Paris: Tallandier, 2000) at 243.
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25. Gerald Walter, Maximilien de Robespierre (Paris: Gallimard Walter, 1989) at 107.
26. Barry Shapiro, “Self-sacrifice, self-interest, or self-defense? The constituent assembly and the ‘selfdenying ordinance’ of May 1791” (2002) 25 French Historical Studies 625.
27. E. Lebèque, Thouret (Paris: Felix Alcan, 1911) at 261.
28. C. E. Ferrières, “Mémoires” in M. de Lescure, ed., Bibliothèque des mémoires, t. XXXV (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1932) 344.
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31. G. Loewenstein et al., “Self-Serving Assessments of Fairness and Pretrial Bargaining” (1993) 22 J. Legal Stud. 135.
32. Jon Elster, Closing the Books (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) at 194.
33. Peter Russell, Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? rev. ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993) at 191.