Constituent power and abusive constitutionalism: The problem of the constitutional clauses replacement

Abstract

It is often said that any activation of the constituent power, preceded by certain elements and conditions, is always a free activity limits or constraints, because it is so required by the democratic nature of the sovereign people that holds it. However, recent events  show  that the use of constitutionalism may be due, in some cases, a “non-constitutional” or “anti- democratic” interests or mobile, against which the classical theory of constituent power is usually warmly support the  establishment of certain “internal” or “natural” limits. This article argues that an adequate defense of constitutionalism as a control to power might require the definition of other “controls” that are an expression of what people understand, at any given time, as a “exercised proper” constituent power, as well as the forecast of the agents who would be best placed to guarantee them, without involving ignore its “extra- legal” nature and yes, rather the preservation of its “