The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment

Name: The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781509908257
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Author: Richard Albert; Xenophon Contiades; Alkmene Fotiadou
ISBN: 9781509908257

Edited by Richard Albert · Xenophon Contiades · Alkmene Fotiadou

Hart Publishing July 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781509908257
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: July 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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At both the national level and from a comparative angle, the most important emerging trend in constitutional law is the effort to understand how constitutions change by seeking to understand constitutions, constitutional identity, political and constitutional actors, and constitutionalism itself. Much of the innovative dialogue ongoing in the field, creating new theories and understandings, revolves around comparative constitutional amendment.

This volume aspires to be the first to cover comprehensively the new dimensions of the study of constitutional amendment, and will become a reference point for all scholars working on the subject. The volume covers all the topics where innovative work is being done, such as the notion of the people, the trend of empirical quantitative approaches to constitutional change, unamendability, sunrise clauses, constitutional referenda, reconceptualizing the conventional divide between constituent and constituted powers, among others important subjects. Moreover, the volume brings together some of the most recognizable names currently writing in the field. Most importantly, the volume is in many ways a dialogue that cuts through these innovative conceptualizations and highlights scholarly disagreement and, in so doing, puts ideas to the test.

The volume therefore captures the fierce ongoing debates on the relevant topics, it reveals the current trends and contested issues, and it offers a variety of arguments elaborated by prominent experts in the field. It will open the way for further dialogue.

Introduction: The State of the Art in Constitutional Amendment
Richard Albert
1. Amendment Power, Constituent Power, and Popular Sovereignty: Linking Unamendability and Amendment Procedures
Yaniv Roznai
2. Constitutional Theory and Cognitive Estrangement: Beyond Revolutions, Amendments and Constitutional Moments
Zoran Oklopcic
3. Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers
Oran Doyle
4. Comment on Doyle's Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers
Mark Tushnet
5. Constituting the Amendment Power: A Framework for Comparative Amendment Law
Thomaz Pereira
6. Sieyès: The Spirit of Constitutional Democracy?
Luisa Fernanda García López
7. Revolutionary Reform in Venezuela: Electoral Rules and Historical Narratives in the Creation of the 1999 Constitution
Joshua Braver
8. 'Revolutionary Reform' and the Seduction of Constitutionalism
Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
9. Constitutional Sunrise
Sofia Ranchordás
10. Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Referendum
Oran Doyle and David Kenny
11. Amendment-Metrics: The Good, the Bad and the Frequently Amended Constitution
Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou
12. Comment on Amendment-Metrics: The Good, the Bad and the Frequently Amended Constitution
James E Fleming
13. Constituting 'the People': The Paradoxical Place of the Formal Amendment Procedure in Australian Constitutionalism
Lael K Weis
14. Hard Amendment Cases in Canada
Kate Glover
15. Formal Amendment Rules and Constitutional Endurance: The Strange Case of the Commonwealth Caribbean
Derek O'Brien
16. The French People's Role in Amending the Constitution: A French Constitutional Analysis from a Pure Legal Perspective
Jean-Philippe Derosier
17. The Implication of Conflation of Normal and 'Constitutional Politics' on Constitutional Change in Africa
Duncan Okubasu
18. 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