Alec Stone Sweet's “Juridical Coup d'État ” Revisited: Coups d'État , Revolutions, Grenzorgane , and Constituent Power

With his “highly suggestive,” “thought-provoking” paper, The Juridical Coup d'État and the Problem of Authority , Stone Sweet initiated an ongoing debate. The paper was the object of immediate comments by three eminent legal scholars and of a response to them by Stone Sweet. Most recently, Corrias has developed on its basis a theory of constituent power now. The present article will mostly deal with those aspects of Stone Sweet's paper on which Corrias has relied.