The escaping present of constitutional crises: an interrogation on the question concerning the Modernity of the Constitution

peer reviewedConstitutional crises are denounced now and then. Even if one notices a decrease in the capacity of this concept to ignite popular mobilization, as there seems to be fewer persons inclined to go to the streets in defense of the Constitution in crisis, the concept of crisis retains, unquestionably, its importance, both rhetorically and historiographically. Nevertheless, a theory of constitutional crises remains absent. The present article proposes to confront this absence, interrogating the literature dedicated to the concept of constitutional crises, on the one hand, and questioning the meaning of this absence in its connection to the concept of the Constitution itself