ABSTRACT
Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, constitutional democracies around the world experienced a period of rapid constitutional and democratic change. As old and new constitutions – local, national, supranational, regional and global – experienced these transitions the political theories of constitutionalism were modified reciprocally. Political philosophers who reflected critically on the prevailing principles of legitimacy of constitutional democracy in the light of these practical changes tested the sufficiency of the principles in one direction and the legitimacy of the changes in the other. Important new insights into constitutionalism were elucidated by political theorists during this period as a consequence.
