Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power Nineteenth-Century Experiences

Kelly L Grotke, Researcher, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki,Markus J Prutsch, Researcher, European Parliament

Kelly L Grotke received her PhD in European history from Cornell University in 2006, where she focused on eighteenth-century German intellectual history and the development of natural law theory. She is affiliated with the Erik Castren Institute at the University of Helsinki, where she was also a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Project Europe 1815-1914 between 2009-2013. She is currently completing a manuscript on the decline of natural law and the rise of logic in the nineteenth century.

Markus J Prutsch holds degrees in History and Political Science. He received his PhD from the European University Institute Florence, specializing in political history and theory with main focus on post-Napoleonic constitutional transfer processes. Fellow at the University of Helsinki between 2009 and 2012, funded by the European Research Council and working on the phenomenon of 'Modern Caesarism', he is now senior investigator and research administrator at the European Parliament.

Introduction
1. Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power: Nineteenth-Century Experiences, Kelly L Grotke and Markus J Prutsch
Constitutions as Anti-Revolutionary Devices
2. A Nineteenth-Century 'Truman Doctrine' avant la lettre? Constitutional Liberty Abroad and the Parliamentary Debate About British Foreign Policy from Castlereagh to Palmerston, Horst Dippel
3. State Building by Means of Constitution in the Italian Constitutional Monarchy, Anna Gianna Manca
4. 'Monarchical Constitutionalism' in Post-Napoleonic Europe: Concept and Practice, Markus J Prutsch
5. Restorations and Constitutions, Volker Sellin
Constitutions and the Justification of New Social Inequalities
6. Rethinking Women's Suffrage in the Nineteenth Century: Local Government and Entanglements of Property and Gender in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, Birgitta Bader-Zaar
7. Constitution, Ownership, and Human Rights, Olivier Beaud
8. Constitutionalism, Inheritance, and Orders of Property. Land Laws in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany, Monika Wienfort
Constitutions as Promoters of Nationalism
9. 'Equality among the Nationalities' and the Peoples (Volksstamme) of the Habsburg Empire, Brigitte Mazohl
10. 'Long Live Sultan Abdulaziz, Long Live the Nation, Long Live The Constitution...', Aylin Kocunyan
11. The Norwegian Constitution of 1814 between European Restoration and Liberal Nationalism, Dag Michalsen
12. Ariadne's Thread: Navigating Postcolonial Spanish America's Labyrinth through Constitution Building in New Granada (1809-1812), Francisco A Ortega
Constitutions as Instruments of Imperialism
13. The Suspension of Constitutionalism in the Heart of Darkness, Felix Hanschmann
14. Modernizing Heterogeneous Empire: the Fundamental Laws of 1906 and the Incorporation of the Grand Duchy of Finland, Tatiana Khripachenko
15. Visions of Constitutionalism: The Implementation of Representative Institutions in the British Colonies, Thibault Guilluy
16. 'The most decorous veil which legal ingenuity can weave': The British Annexation of New Zealand (1840), Paul McHugh
Constitutions as Legal and Political Texts
17. What is a Constitution? What is Constitutional History?, Olivier Jouanjan
18. Egon Zweig and the Intellectual History of Constituent Power, Duncan Kelly
19. Unintended Democracy: Parliamentary Reform in the UK, Jo Eric Khushal Murkens