The Globalizing Turn in the Relationship Between Constitutionalism and Democracy: Some Reiterations from the Perspective of Constitutional Law

Abstract

This essay compliments Neil Walker's Constitutionalism and the Incompleteness of Democracy: An Iterative Relationshipon, with some historical and constitutional observations. It submits that Walker's analysis is based to a large extent on reasoning derived from a particular continental European constitutional tradition. This creates certain problems of its own, that do not arise in a different constitutional tradition. This is not to say, however, that this invalidates his conclusions, but rather underpins them in an alternative manner.