ReConFort

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The research project ReConFort (Reconsidering Constitutional Formation, Constitutional Communication by Drafting, Practice and Interpretation in 18th and 19th Century Europe) is a research project by Ulrike Müßig at the University of Passau, funded by the European Research Council with an Advanced Grant of 1.9 million euros .

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As part of the project, researchers from Australia , Belgium , Germany , Great Britain , Italy , Poland and Spain conducted research under the direction of Ulrike Müßig at the University of Passau on European constitutional history .

The team dealt with the constitutional debates of the 18th and 19th centuries in five European countries ( Belgium , Germany , Italy , Poland and Spain ). The task of the project was to examine the cross-border interactions between the constitutional process and public debates in Europe in the late 18th and 19th centuries. ReConFort focuses on public discourse in five case studies, the Polish Sejm (1788–1792), the Spanish Cortes (1812), the Belgian National Congress (1830–1831), the Frankfurt Parliament (1848–1849) and the Italian Parliamento Subalpino ( 1861). The subject of consideration was in particular the constitution as the interplay of constitutional text, social context, political practice and interpretation. The project was able to demonstrate that communication about the constitution is just as important as the written text. The investigation of the constitutional processes of the late 18th and 19th centuries was based, among other things, on still largely unknown primary sources (cross-border correspondence and journalistic activities of important constitutional actors, including exile literature, as well as regional / national and cross-border constitutional journalism in the public media).

Publications

Several publications have emerged from the ReConFort project that deal with common values ​​of the European constitutional tradition:

  • Ulrike Müßig (Ed.): Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I National Sovereignty. Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-42405-7 .
  • Ulrike Müßig (Ed.): Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II - Decisive Constitutional Normativity. Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-73037-0 .
  • Sovereignty and Constitution: historical issues and contemporary perspectives / Sovranità e Costituzione: nodi storici e prospettive contemporanee, Giornale di storia costituzionale / Journal of Constitutional History. 2017, ISBN 978-88-6056-550-1 .
  • Justiciability of power / Giustiziabilità del Potere, Journal of Constitutional History / Giornale di storia costituzionale. 2019, ISBN 978-88-6056-612-6 .
  • Ulrike Müßig: Reason and Fairness. Brill, 2019, ISBN 978-90-04-39372-1 .

In addition, the results of the research can be accessed online via a database with 650 historical documents from the period from 1770 to 1870. This includes not only the constitutional texts discussed, but also letters and journalistic publications that were incorporated into the research.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Passau: Homepage Reconfort. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ ERC: ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. ERC, accessed June 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Post-Docs - University of Passau. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  4. ^ Reconsidering Constitutional Formation - University of Passau. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .