Law as a category of social mediation between facts and norms -- The sociology of law versus the philosophy of justice -- A reconstructive approach to law I: the system of rights -- A reconstructive approach to law II: the principles of the constitutional state -- The indeterminacy of law and the rationality of adjudication -- Judiciary and legislature: on the role and legitimacy of constitutional adjudication -- Deliberative politics: a procedural concept of democracy -- Society and the political public sphere -- Paradigms of law -- Appendix I. Popular sovereignty as procedure (1988) -- Appendix II. Citizenship and national identity (1990)
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