Andrew Arato’s The Adventures of the Constituent Power: Beyond Revolutions? is a book rich in detail, offering interesting insights into whichever locus of the subject matter one’s interest is focused on. The book fits into Arato’s long-term research program, which aims to add to the set, in his view too small, of “serious synthetic works linking theory and comparative analysis that are capable of prudentially orienting actors engaged in constitution-making processes all over the world.”1 This is not Arato’s first contribution in this spirit. Most recently, he published Post Sovereign Constitution Making, which can be considered as a first volume of...