from Part I - Constitutional Diffusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
This chapter tries to give some first preliminary answers to the global surge of constitutions. Are they the result of a contingent development of human history and/or human thought? The breakthrough of Enlightenment and our better insight in the exigencies of natural law? Or are they rather the product of human evolution, human nature and social evolution? Or are they simply the by-product of something else (e.g. the democratic waves, or globalizing markets)?
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