15 - Constitution Making

Summary

The question that I explore in this chapter is the following: what should delegates in a constitutional assembly do, in order to properly take into consideration the demands of rival groups, which are usually present in the context of multicultural, divided societies? In my analysis, I make reference to four different responses to the fact of pluralism, which we find in the history of constitutional conventions, namely “imposition,” “synthesis,” “silence” and “bundling”.After describing these four different responses, I concentrate my attention on the analysis of the latter –“bundling”- which has been the more significant and influential approach, within the history of constitutionalism in the Americas, and also one very important in other parts of the world..