Constitutional Interpretation and Popular Representation in the US and Italy: Reflections on Ferrara’s Theory of Intergenerational Sovereignty

The essay makes some reflections, from the point of view of the Italian constitutional justice system, on the theoretical position held concerning the “people’s” representation through the interpretative work of the
Constitutional Courts by Alessandro Ferrara in Chapter 6 of his monograph Sovereignty Across Generations. Constituent Power and Political Liberalism.