5:00 - 6:00pm
Seminar

Amending the Constitutions: Process and Substance

Mark Tushnet
The Federal Convention and the Constituent Assembly of 1789: a closer look
5:00 - 6:00pm
    Salle 4, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Mark Tushnet

    Events

    Introduction
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    The Estates General before 1789
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    Introduction
    Jon Elster

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    The convocation of the Estates of 1789
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    The question of executive structure in Philadelphia and Paris
    Arnaud Le Pillouer

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    The Constituante between the king's soldiers and the Parisian crowds
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    The constitutional function of the judiciary in the doctrine of the separation of powers in Versaill…
    Pasquale Pasquino

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    The two great fears of 1789
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    The veto issue in France and the United States
    Michel Troper

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    Separation of powers : bicameralism and royal veto
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    Equality, slavery, suffrage
    Jon Elster

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    Amending the Constitutions: Process and Substance
    Mark Tushnet

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    Linking the future : eligibility and amendments
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    Comparison of the French and American constitutional models : genesis and evolution
    Michel Rosenfeld

    Seminar
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    Conclusion
    Jon Elster

    Lecture
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    See also

    Lecture related to the seminar: The Constituent Assembly of 1789-1791 Collective decisions (continued)
    Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences
    The Federal Convention and the Constituent Assembly of 1789: a closer look