Book Review, D.J. Galligan, Keepers of the Common Good. The People, Opinion, and the Social Foundations of Constitutional Authority

Denis Galligan's book tries to answer the fundamental question: What constitutes constitutions? This article review deals with the critical analysis of Denis Galligan work about the political and legal relations between the People and the Constitution, built by the Author through an historical and deep theoretical analysis of the foundations, the constitutional field, and the constitutional form of this relations. The Book and its review work on the fundamental implications of a new constitutional language about the political power under the gaze of the People: Authority, People, Sentiment, Opinion among others issues are analysed as the new key concepts to better understand s the funding principles of a democratic Constitution studied throughout Italian and English History, as well as the basic works of David Hume and Giambattista Vico. offers a deeply original perspective on sovereignty and the foundations of law, grounded in historical and social experience