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... Colón-Ríos's book is undoubtedly a major advance in scholarship on constituent power … * George Duke, Elisa Arcioni, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies * Colón-Ríos has written the high-theory constitutional analysis for our populist moment: a historically informed, theoretically nuanced investigation into the fraught relation between sovereignty, constituent power, and (constitutional) law that underpins contemporary political conflicts ... Closing his book, Colón-Ríos suggests several possible avenues for future research ... Should anyone take up these proposals, one would hope they model their investigation on what Colón-Ríos has produced: a thorough treatment of the historical and legal record that clearly demarcates the emergent theoretical terrain, and rigorously argues for future development of its insights. * J. Reese Faust, University of Memphis, Contemporary Political Theory *

Colon-Rios has written the high-theory constitutional analysis for our populist moment: a historically informed, theoretically nuanced investigation into the fraught relation between sovereignty, constituent power, and (constitutional) law that underpins contemporary political conflicts ... Closing his book, Colon-Rios suggests several possible avenues for future research ... Should anyone take up these proposals, one would hope they model their investigation on what Colon-Rios has produced: a thorough treatment of the historical and legal record that clearly demarcates the emergent theoretical terrain, and rigorously argues for future development of its insights. * J. Reese Faust, University of Memphis, Contemporary Political Theory *

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Joel Colón-Ríos is Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published widely in the areas of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law and is the author of Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic Legitimacy and Constituent Power.

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