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06/03 The concept of constitutionalism. Emergence of the constitutional state.

13/03 Why should we be governed? Social contract and the problem of state legitimacy from Hobbes until today.

20/3 No arbitrary power. Rule of law and Rechtstaat.

3/4 We the people. Equality, democracy and popular sovereignty.

10/4 Direct democracy and representative democracy.

17/4 Constitutional courts and the “new constitutionalism”.

24/4 Peer review constitutionalism? The emergence of global and regional constitutionalism and 15/5 Peer-review constitutionalism continued. EU Rule of Law vs. Hungarian and Polish Constitutionalism

Assignment for the holidays' weeks.

Twilight of Constitutionalism (the book)