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'A fascinating meditation about the implications of the new technologically and digitally connected world we now all live in for such fundamental conceptions as the identity of a singular 'people' in whose name sovereignty is claimed. At a more concrete level, should we welcome the genuine possibility that people connected to the modern internet could become the source of new constitutions and the legitimacy attached to them? Along the way, the author provides important discussions of the traditional animosity, in most political theory, to the demos, often described in terms of being a mob, or a crowd, resistant to the necessary leadership of wise elites. The tendencies identified by Professor Abat i Ninet are bound to be ever more important in the future, perhaps in ways we can scarcely envision at present.' - Sanford V. Levinson, The University of Texas at Austin, US 'Dare to get lost in this unmissable, erudite dive into the crowds present, past, and future - and their essential constitutional significance!' - Dimitry Kochenov, Central European University 'Through a theoretically and comparatively rich analysis, Antoni Abat i Ninet brings to the surface the radical democratic potential of constitutional crowdsourcing. This is a must read for both comparative constitutional lawyers and political theorists, as well as for anyone interested in constitution-making, constituent power, and popular participation in politics.' - Joel Colon-Rios, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 'The rise of the Internet is revolutionizing the foundations of democratic politics with bewildering speed. Ninet rightly emphasizes the profound ways in which new technologies challenge traditional understandings of political identity - and calls on his readers to confront the unprecedented challenges required to reconstruct constitutional legitimacy in the brave new world of the twenty-first century.' - Bruce Ackerman, Yale University, US

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Antoni Abat i Ninet, Universitat autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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