Revolutionary Establishing Of Constitutions A Study In “Revolutionary Constitutionalism” & It’s Application In Arab Spring Countries

Abstract

In the last twenty years there have been at least two very important and prominent trends around the world in the constitution-making process. The first is the "revolutionary constitutionalism": using the constitution-making process to institutionalize and bring about successful conclusion for a political revolution. Alongside this traditional version of revolutionary constitutionalism, one can say that there is also a more recent version of a successful revolutionary electoral movement that uses the constitution-making process as a means of radical transformation for the political system that it aims to achieve. Some Arab countries that later know the so-called "Arab Spring" have tried to use this traditional version of the revolutionary constitutionalism to establish a constitutional system based on the principles of its revolutions. But the results of these attempts varied due to the combination of several factors that led to this discrepancy.