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The rights of nature, new forms of citizenship and the Good Life
Acosta,Alberto
Acosta,Alberto
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"Every constitution synthesises a historical moment. Crystallised in every constitution is an accumulation of social processes. And in every constitution a certain way of understanding life takes shape. And yet, a constitution does not make a society. It is society that produces a constitution and adopts it like a roadmap. Besides, a constitution must be more than merely the result of an exercise in advanced jurisprudence, seen through the logic of constitutional interpretations, and it is certainly not the product of one or a few enlightened individuals. Beyond its indisputably legal function, a constitution must be a political project for a common life, to be elaborated and given eff ect through the active participation of all citizens. From this point of view, the recent Ecuadorian constitution (produced in the city of Montecristi), which remained faithful to pent-up demands and responded to prevailing expectations, assigns the undertaking of structural transformation to itself as both a means and, indeed, an end. In it are expressed multiple proposals for radical changes constructed over the course of many decades of resistance and social struggles, changes that are often impossible for traditional constitutionalists to accept (or even to understand).[...]", p. 108
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2009-10
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