The foundations and traditions of constitutional amendment / edited by Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, and Alkmene Fotiadou.
Contributor(s): Albert, Richard (Law professor) [editor.]
| Kontiadēs, Xenophōn I [editor.] | Phōtiadou, Alkmēnē [editor.]Series: Hart studies in comparative public law: Publisher: Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2019Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xvi, 399 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509908257; 9781509934638; 9781509908271Subject(s): Constitutional amendments | Constitutional law | Law reformDDC classification: 342.03 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 342.03 FOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018778 |
First published in 2017.
Introduction : the state of the art in constitutional amendment / Robert Albert -- I. The foundations of constitutional amendment -- Amendment power, constituent power, and popular sovereignty : linking unamendability and amendment procedures / Yaniv Roznai -- Constitutional theory and cognitive estrangement : beyond revolutions, amendments, and constitutional moments / Zoran Oklopcic -- Constraints on constitutional amendment powers / Oran Doyle -- Comment on Doyle's constraints on constitutional amendment powers / Mark Tushnet -- Constituting the amendment power : a framework for comparative amendment law / Thomaz Pereira -- Sieyès : the spirit of constitutional democracy? / Luisa Fernanda García López -- Revolutionary reform in Venezuela : electoral rules and historical narratives in the creation of the 1999 Constitution / Joshua Braver -- "Revolutionary reform" and the seduction of constitutionalism / Juliano Zaiden Benvindo -- The traditions of constitutional amendments -- Constitutional sunrise / Sofia Ranchordás -- Constitutional change and interest group politics : Ireland's children's rights referendum / Oran Doyle and David Kenny -- Amendment-metrics : the good, the bad, and the frequently amended constitution / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Comment on amendment-metrics : the good, the bad, and the frequently amended constitution / James E. Fleming -- Constituting 'the people' : the paradoxical place of the formal amendment procedure in Australian constitutionalism / Lael K. Weis -- Hard amendment cases in Canada / Kate Glover -- Formal amendment rules and constitutional endurance : the strange case of the commonwealth Caribbean / Derek O'Brien -- The French people's role in amending the constitution : a French constitutional analysis from a pure legal perspective / Jean-Philippe Derosier -- The implication of conflation of normal and 'constitutional politics' on constitutional change in Africa / Duncan Okubasu -- Direct democracy and constitutional change in the US : institutional learning from state laboratories / Jurgen Goossens -- Conclusion : the emergence of comparative constitutional amendment as a new discipline : towards a paradigm shift / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou.