Nr. 2/2013ANTONIO FUCCILLO The statute of the Taoist Church of Italy and the art. 8, paragraph II of the Constitutional Charter: social epiphany of a religious denomination
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Table of contents
Introduction – 1. Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Islamic world – 2. Origin and practice of constituent power in the Arab-Islamic context – 3. Carl Schmitt's model of the Constituent Assembly – 4. The first phase of the Tunisian constitutional transition – 5. The National Constituent Assembly and the main bodies of the transition - 6. Constitutionalism and constitutional policies in transitional Tunisia - 7. For a “civilized” but “confessional” state. The debate on secularism in Tunisia – 8. Concluding reflections
Abstract
The article studies the evolution of constitutionalism in the Arab context, following the Arab Spring. In particular, it focuses on the experience of the National Constituent Assembly in Tunisia.
Keywords
Tunisia; constitutionalism; constituent power; Arab Spring; Islam
