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Having the power to enact or establish

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  • Not unlike any other term constitutive of our political vocabulary,
  • "The new design of the referendum, which we call constitutive, will be acted on by Kenyans to adopt the draft constitution.
  • For a brief discussion of the notion of constitutive luck see the following supplementary document:
  • Such rules are the so-called constitutive rules, as opposed to regulative rules (the terminology is taken from Kant).
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