Sovereignty across living generations

Gosseries, Axel
(2025) Ethics, politics and society — Vol. 8, n° 1, p. 172-181 (2025)

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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 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.
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Gosseries, A. (2025). Sovereignty across living generations. Ethics, politics and society, 8(1), 172-181. https://doi.org/10.21814/eps.8.2.7080 (Original work published 2025)