TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors.............................................................................................. vii

Introduction: Mapping the Founding...................................................................

Richard Albert and Menaka Guruswamy

1. Between Fact and Norm: Narrative and the Constitutionalisation

of Founding Moments................................................................................... 11

Ming-Sung Kuo

2. The Role of Courts in Advancing Constitutional Moments:

Constitutionalising the Constitution in Singapore and Hong Kong............... 33

Swati Jhaveri

3. Foundation and Revolution: Hannah Arendt and the Problem

of Legitimacy and Stability in Constitutional Consolidation.......................... 53

Mel A Topf

4. I am Not Your (Founding) Father.................................................................. 73

Mikolaj Barczentewicz

5. And Then They Begin to Look after the History of Their Founders’:

(Re)configurations of the Founding in the Early Republic............................. 93

Simon Gilhooley

6. Under the Shadow of the Constitutional Revolution? Revisiting Israel’s

Founding Moments..................................................................................... 113

Yair Sagy

7. Path-Dependency in Soviet and Russian Constitution-Making..................... 133

Eugene D Mazo

8. ‘FoundingMoments’ in Latin America? The Brazilian and Chilean

Constitutional Histories and the Rise of the Forgotten People..................... 159

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo

9. We the Taiwanese People: A Constitution with Two Antagonistic

Constitutional Identities............................................................................... 179

Chien-Chih Lin

10. What’s in a Founding? Founding Moments and Pakistan’s

‘Permanent Constitution’ of 1973............................................................... 201

Maryam S Khan

11. A Founding Moment in Iraq: A Gender Perspective..................................... 223

Noga Efrati

Conclusion: Rethinking Founding Moments....................................................... 239

Nishchal Basnyat

Index.................................................................................................................. 249