Sovereignty Across Living Generations

• Gosseries, Axel ^[1]
  1. [1] FNRS & UCLouvain, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics
• Localización: Ethics, Politics & Society, ISSN 2184-2582, ISSN-e 2184-2574, Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 2025
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ferrara (2023) defends a sequential view on how to approach a constitution across generations in terms of democratic legitimacy. Using his distinction between a sequential and a serial view, I defend the latter. I articulate two logics in support of the serial view and connect one of them to the all-affected principle. I diagnose the nature of the disagreement between the two views in the case of regime volatility. And I show that the serial view can plausibly address regime volatility issues on grounds other than concerns for democratic legitimacy.