Direct citizen participation in the constitutional reform
by Patricia García Majado
International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies (IJHRCS), Vol. 8, No. 1/2, 2021

Abstract: This paper aims at analysing the role that direct citizen participation plays in democratic constitutional reforms. In opposition to a non-normative model, typical of those systems which conceive the people as the real sovereign, this paper argues that the direct participation of the citizenry - which can take place at the input (deliberation) or at the output (decision) of the reform process - only makes sense if understood as a legal mechanism aimed at reinforcing the own sovereignty of the legal system itself and thus democracy.

Online publication date: Mon, 22-Mar-2021

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