Constitutions as Risk Management Devices: The Case of Secession

Authors

  • Giuseppe Martinico Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1974-4935/7513

Keywords:

Secession, Comparative, Constitutional Law, Constitutions, Fear,

Abstract

This short essay explores the importance of fear and violence in the genesis and life of constitutions, with a particular focus on the case of secession. Secession has been seen as a taboo (Mancini) and until recently constitutions tried to avoid mentioning it, considering such a phenomenon as an extra legal fact. A turning point has been represented by the famous Reference of the Canadian Supreme Court on Québec.

Finally, in the last part of this work I shall try to present some arguments in favour of the explicit constitutionalization of a secession clause in multi-national federalisms.

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Published

2017-11-29

How to Cite

Martinico, G. (2017). Constitutions as Risk Management Devices: The Case of Secession. Governare La Paura. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, (2). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1974-4935/7513

Issue

2017: The Fear of Secession

Section

Essays and Notes

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Copyright (c) 2017 Giuseppe Martinico

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