Abstract
The article brings up the popular constitutionalism, discussing its main authors. Following, it analyses the existing models idealized to materialize this popular constitutionalism. Then, the article points the main critics to this tendency of the American constitutional thought. Departing from all these expositions, the article aims, through a critical bibliographic review of the best contributions of the popular constitutionalism, to find a possibility of reconciliation between judicial supremacy and popular engagement and identify the best contributions made by the popular constitutionalism.
Keywords:
popular constitutionalism; American constitutionalism; judicial review; judicial supremacy; democracy