62103 20200221144329.0 sideral 101432 ART-2016-101432 spa (orcid)0000-0002-8409-9604 Tudela Aranda, J. Universidad de Zaragoza El derecho a decidir y el principio democrático 2016 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted After having decided the objective of independence, the political parties in favour of this objective had to find a way how to articulate their aspirations. Since there is no legal way within the national or international law, the independence movement based their demands in the democratic principle by building the so-called right to decide. However this right to decide means to limit the democratic principle to a single electoral act, with unilaterally established rules and outside the existing legal framework. In this article we try to disprove both the supposed opposition between the rule of law and the democratic principle, as well as the supposed democratic spirit of the right to decide. Along with this, we will argue that it is impossible to constitutionalise the right of self-determination. The right of self-determination is opposed to the essence of any constitutional order, moreover the difficulties of setting the conditions in order to implement this right, and particularly, the definition of the subject, makes the application impossible. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.146 2016 Political Science and International Relations 2016 Q3 Law 2016 Q4 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 4005 135 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Derecho Público Área Derecho Constitucional 37, 1 (2016), 477-497 Teor. real. const. Teoría y realidad constitucional 1139-5583 http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/TRC/article/download/17024/14611 Texto completo de la revista 99810 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62103/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 56027 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62103/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:62103 articulos driver 2020-02-21-13:45:31 ARTICLE