1. Promoting and conducting research in political theory, constitutionalism and democratic constitutionalism, including:
   1. The theory and practice of constituent power; constituent processes; legitimacy of power; democratic principle as legitimising political organisation; conditions for the exercise of popular sovereignty. 
   2. The legitimacy of power; the democratic principle as a legitimiser of political organisation; the conditions for the exercise of popular sovereignty
   3. The validity and characteristics of constituent power as an emancipatory force d. delimitation of the concept of democratic constitutionalism and new constitutionalism 
2. Promoting and carrying out research on constitutional theory and democratic constitution, including:
   1. The origin and functions of the Constitution; the democratic Constitution through history and its present meaning 
   2. The democratic interpretation of the Constitution; the intangibility clauses 
   3. The relationship between constituent power and the Constitution; legitimacy and constitutional validity; democratic control; the validity of popular sovereignty in the Constitution. 
   4. The contents of the Constitution in constitutional history and in the new constitutionalism; minorities and oppressed groups

Partners

• Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi - University of Girona 
• José Asensi Sabater - University of Alacant 
• Antonio de Cabo de la Vega - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Francisco Palacios Romeo - Universidad de Zaragoza 
• Gerardo Pisarello Prados - University of Barcelona 
• Ainhoa Lasa López