The people shall govern: Constituent power and the South African Constitution

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The people shall govern: Constituent power and the South African Constitution
المؤلفون: Matakane, Gcina M.
مرشدي الرسالة: de Ville, Jacques
بيانات النشر: University of the Western Cape, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: South African National ETD Portal
مصطلحات موضوعية: Constituent power, South African Constitution, Constitution-making, Relationalism, Liberalism, Normativism, Constitutional democracy
الوصف: Magister Philosophiae - MPhil
The South African negotiations process, in the true spirit of classical liberalism, emphasised juridical continuity, legality, and gradual political change. But in spite of this and the fact that South Africa’s constitution-making process is acclaimed as the most successful negotiated revolution, it is generally recognised that there is incongruity between the promise and hope brought about by South Africa’s constitution-making process and the political and social crises that ensued after the advent of constitutional democracy in the country. I argue in this analysis that the South African constitutional discourse must undergo a fundamental shift by abandoning the normative regulation of the constituent power of the people in order to allow for the people to truly govern. The acknowledgement of the possibility of the unregulated exercise of constituent power through people-driven initiatives can mitigate the current malaise facing South Africa’s constitutional democracy.
Original Identifier: oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/5625
اللغة: English
الإتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5625Test
حقوق: University of the Western Cape
رقم الانضمام: edsndl.netd.ac.za.oai.union.ndltd.org.uwc.oai.etd.uwc.ac.za.11394.5625
قاعدة البيانات: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations