Whether in global markets, in the EU, or in international law - constitutions are long being formed beyond the state with severe consequences. In this post-democratic constitutionalism, a market-liberal program is given the status of an unquestionable consensus, reinforced by a higher-ranking law. Kolja Möller connects system theory, post-Marxist resources, and democracy theory to show, using different examples: Neither returning to national democracy nor spreading individual global citizen rights will improve this situation. Instead, a deposing power is needed to resolve the substantive over-formation of constitutions beyond the state. The new and critical constitutional theory thus created challenges the current diagnoses of declining status of democracy.

Kolja Möller (Dr.) ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Exzellencluster 'Normative Ordnungen' der Universität Frankfurt am Main. Er forscht zu Fragen internationaler politischer Theorie, Soziologie und Rechtstheorie.