Journal article

Authors list: Kliemt, Hartmut

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 269-281

Journal: Public Choice

Volume number: 195

Issue number: 3-4

ISSN: 0048-5829

eISSN: 1573-7101

Open access status: Hybrid

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-021-00888-9

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
Rejecting all knowledge claims concerning right and wrong in matters practical James Buchanan concurred with legal positivism that invalid law cannot be identified by its substantive content but only by an inherited defect in its factual creation. Beyond correct creation Buchanan proposed as a quasi-natural law constraint that unanimity in the shadow of individual veto power must at least be conceivable if a norm is to be law. The emerging hybrid conception of constitutional law is symptomatic for Buchanan's never-ending but ultimately futile efforts to incorporate Kantian ideals of interpersonal respect into constitutional economics without imposing them as personal values.

Harvard Citation style: Kliemt, H. (2023) The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory, Public Choice, 195(3-4), pp. 269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-021-00888-9

APA Citation style: Kliemt, H. (2023). The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory. Public Choice. 195(3-4), 269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-021-00888-9