The Constitution as a Common Pact (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Who owns the Constitution?

A constitution may be legally sophisticated, institutionally elaborate, and formally approved-yet remain distant from the people in whose name it speaks.

In The Constitution as a Common Pact: Toward a People-Centred Philosophy of Law, Cheick Boucadry Traore begins with a different proposition: before the law comes the people.

The book asks what changes when constitution-making begins not with a completed legal draft, but with the human person, the lived realities of communities, and a national conversation about the fundamental rules under which people are prepared to live together.

Drawing upon the ideas of Dantige ni Baro-concertation and conversation-and Hakili Jakabo-the gathering of intelligence through reciprocal expression and listening-Traore develops a people-centred approach in which citizens participate before fundamental constitutional choices have been closed.

The book also turns toward Africa's diverse institutional inheritances as sources of knowledge to understand, interrogate, and place in conversation with universal principles and contemporary realities.

At its centre is a simple sequence: the human person is the purpose; the people are the source; concertation and conversation are the process; the common pact is the result; law gives it form; and institutions put it into practice.

This is an argument for more than a constitutional text. It is an argument for a constitutional order that people can recognize as their own-including those who do not constitute the majority.

A way for people who disagree to remain a people.