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Sieyès and republican liberty (2020)
Journal Article
Lindsay, A. (2022). Sieyès and republican liberty. European Journal of Political Theory, 21(1), 155-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885120980591

In On the People’s Terms, Philip Pettit incorporates the Sieyèsian notion of constituent power into his constitutional theory of non-domination. In this article, I argue that Emmanuel Sieyès’s understanding of liberty precludes such an appropriation.... Read More about Sieyès and republican liberty.

“Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power (2018)
Journal Article
Lindsay, A. (2018). “Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power. Political Theory, 47(4), 475-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591718805979

The prevailing interpretation of constituent power is taken to be the extra-institutional capacity of a group, typically ‘the people’, to establish or revise the basic constitutional conditions of a state. Among many contemporary democratic theorists... Read More about “Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power.

Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’ (2017)
Journal Article
Lindsay, A. (2017). Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(10), https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453717701990

Contemporary theorists of constituent power recognise a tension in which the omnipotent novelty of constituent power is necessarily policed by constituted power. Beginning with Arendt’s claim that the categories of constitutional stability and politi... Read More about Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’.