nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201219-172844-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201219s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201219-172844-0 doi eng 342 23 Niesen, Peter Author aut Extinguishing the Burning Embers: Rubinelli on Sieyès Niesen, Peter Verfassungsblog 2020-12-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The research question of 'Constituent Power. A History' is framed in the book‘s introduction as a critical mission in intellectual history, as Rubinelli identifies a major confusion in recent works on the historiography of political thought. A small industry has sprung up in recent years to backdate the advent of constituent power to the middle ages and even to antiquity. Authors claim to have discovered an employment of the concept in texts dating back to before the term became historically available in Emmanuel Sieyès. Rubinelli is surely right to castigate the anachromisms involved, and referring to Aristotle, Marsilius or Machiavelli, Bodin, Spinoza or Hobbes as early adapters to a timeless concept of constituent power seems misguided, but perhaps for other than her stated methodological reason, that we need to attend to the usage of the term because there is no determinate and stable concept of constituent power. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Constituent Power Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Lucia Rubinelli Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/extinguishing-the-burning-embers-rubinelli-on-sieyes/ raw object