Constitutional Ambition and Humility in an Age of Extremes; L’ambition et l’humilité constitutionnelles à l’ère des extrêmes
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Abstract
Are we really living through an age of extremes? If so, how should constitutional law respond? Despite its importance, constitutional law is, at best, a partial response. We need to reconstruct and better situate constitutional law for an age of extremes. This article advances five claims: first, that as a potential tool for complex problem-solving, constitutional law must, with humility, acknowledge its parochial nature; second, that what counts as law and what counts as constitutional law both need to be pluralized; third, that constitutional law’s continued relevance depends on its ability to engage with other disciplines in a holistic, coordinated, and relational way; fourth, that, drawing on its strengths, constitutional law might attend to the polycentric and asymmetrical nature of governance; and fifth, that to the extent that constitutional law still matters, it needs to cultivate and embed in its users the skills required for holistic problem-solving to thrive. Constitutional law will continue to have a role in dealing with political violence, corrupt officials, political attacks on universities, and petty tyrants, but we can also pursue a more cosmopolitan vision of constitutionalism, one that embraces a holistic, cosmopolitan approach to the linear, territorially bound understandings of modern state law, one that can help guide us through turbulent times. Vivons-nous réellement une ère d’extrêmes ? Si oui, comment le droit constitutionnel doit-il y répondre ? Malgré son importance, le droit constitutionnel n’apporte, au mieux, qu’une réponse partielle. Il est nécessaire de le repenser et de mieux l’adapter à cette ère d’extrêmes. Cet article avance cinq arguments : premièrement, en tant qu’outil potentiel de résolution de problèmes complexes, le droit constitutionnel doit, avec humilité, reconnaître son caractère limité ; deuxièmement, il convient de pluraliser la notion de droit et celle de droit constitutionnel ; troisièmement, la pertinence continue du droit constitutionnel repose sur sa capacité à interagir avec d’autres disciplines de manière holistique, coordonnée et relationnelle; quatrièmement, le droit constitutionnel, fort de ses atouts, pourrait prendre en compte la nature polycentrique et asymétrique de la gouvernance. Cinquièmement, dans la mesure où le droit constitutionnel conserve toute son importance, il doit cultiver et ancrer chez ses utilisateurs les compétences nécessaires à une résolution holistique des problèmes. Le droit constitutionnel continuera de jouer un rôle face à la violence politique, la corruption des fonctionnaires, les attaques politiques contre les universités et la tyrannie, mais nous pouvons aussi envisager une vision plus cosmopolite du constitutionnalisme, une vision qui embrasse une approche holistique et cosmopolite des conceptions linéaires et territorialement cloisonnées du droit étatique moderne, une vision susceptible de nous guider en période de turbulences.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.068 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".