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This chapter explores the issues examined in this volume by drawing from critical constitutional theory. I refer to the Jacobin dimension in order to present a ‘frame of mind’ with historical, political, and organizational overtones that has been pervasive enough in Modern Greece to find expression at the constitutional level and provide the theoretical milieu within which Greek legal doctrine has developed (Tassopoulos 1999, p. 225). Critical constitutional theory is interesting in this context as it follows the evolution of frames of mind through their ascendance and decline as breathing spaces of constitutional doctrine. It definitely requires a sense of irony, sometimes tragic irony, in pursuing the transformation of once liberating ideas into iron straitjackets of dogmatism. Yet critical constitutional theory also needs to be approached with care, in order to avoid overhasty judgements. While at times remaining loyal to a specific ideological frame may suggest a closed mind, in others it may be illustrative of a determination to preserve and not to give up easily something that may have enduring value.
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Tassopoulos, I.A. (2013). On the Jacobin Dimension of Greek Constitutional Tradition. In: Triandafyllidou, A., Gropas, R., Kouki, H. (eds) The Greek Crisis and European Modernity. Identities and Modernities in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276254_4
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