Ferrara defends a serial view for addressing democratic legitimacy and regime volatility across generations, suggesting broader implications.
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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