Sobre elefantes e ideales: dos críticas a “El estado del derecho constitucional comparado: ¿para qué son las Constituciones?”
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This text is a reaction to the paper "Current State of Comparative Constitutional Law: A democratic critique" by Joel Colón Ríos through two critics. The first is a critique that I call "the elephant under the tablecloth" where I question the stability of the liberal ideal within comparative constitutional law. It seeks to show that comparative constitutional law is not as stable a field as Colón Ríos presumes and that, on the contrary, some comparative projects start from a democratic ideal that has influenced dominant authors of the field, such as Tom Ginsburg. The second is a critique that I call "the problem of the binarism between the liberal and the democratic ideal". This criticism is rooted in the way out that "J" offers to overpass the dominant role of the liberal ideal within comparative constitutional law: displacing it with the democratic ideal. This would reproduce some problems, particularly the blind spots in the description only from another perspective. Instead, my argument is that the problem lies in believing that constitutions have a functionality limited to two ideals, the liberal ideal and the democratic ideal.
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