Download or read book Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments written by Kemal Gözler and published by Kemal Gözler. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is an attempt to answer the following questions: Can constitutional courts review the constitutionality of constitutional amendments? If yes, to what extent? It is endeavored, in a comparative perspective, to answer these questions by examining the constitutions of several countries and the case law of the Austrian, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian and Turkish Constitutional Courts, French Constitutional Council, Indian, Irish, and the United States Supreme Courts.
Download or read book Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments written by Yaniv Roznai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? Using theoretical and comparative approaches, Roznai establishes the nature and scope of constitutional amendment powers by focusing on substantive limitations, looking at their prevalence in practice and the conceptual coherence of the very idea of limitations to constitutional amendment powers.
Download or read book The Supreme Court and Judicial Choice written by Paul R. Dimond and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views Supreme Court decisions as just part of the evolutionary process of constitutional interpretation.
Download or read book Responding to Imperfection written by Sanford Levinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well. The contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Mark E. Brandon, David R. Dow, Stephen M. Griffin, Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, Sanford Levinson, Donald Lutz, Walter Murphy, Frederick Schauer, John R. Vile, and Noam J. Zohar.
Download or read book Judicial Review in New Democracies written by Tom Ginsburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New democracies around the world have adopted constitutional courts to oversee the operation of democratic politics. Where does judicial power come from, how does it develop in the early stages of democratic liberalization, and what political conditions support its expansion? This book answers these questions through an examination of three constitutional courts in Asia: Taiwan, Korea, and Mongolia. In a region that has traditionally viewed law as a tool of authoritarian rulers, constitutional courts in these three societies are becoming a real constraint on government. In contrast with conventional culturalist accounts, this book argues that the design and functioning of constitutional review are largely a function of politics and interests. Judicial review - the power of judges to rule an act of a legislature or national leader unconstitutional - is a solution to the problem of uncertainty in constitutional design. By providing insurance to prospective electoral losers, judicial review can facilitate democracy.
Download or read book Between Legality and Legitimacy written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing scholarly interest in the issue of unconstitutional constitutional amendments. Generally speaking, this issue concerns whether there should be some limits to constitutional amendments and whether courts should control those limits. In this sense, unconstitutional constitutional amendment exacerbates the debate concerning the legitimacy of judicial review qua institution, and moves the discussion one step further. The rise in interest among scholars of the issue of unconstitutional constitutional amendments derives from the fact that constitutional amendments are sometimes used as an instrument by authoritarian governments to achieve their aims. The judiciary in various jurisdictions gives negative or affirmative responses to this instrumentalization of constitutional amendments by reviewing the contents of amendments. Thus, judicial review of constitutional amendments on substantive grounds has become a new legal phenomenon, which deserves close consideration. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to this literature. How is it possible for a court to declare an amendment unconstitutional? Under what conditions can the legality of an amendment be questioned? What substantive considerations outweigh the formal value of a duly adopted constitutional amendment, which is normally regarded as the highest legal source in modern legal systems? What kind of legal theory can explain this practice? These are some of the guiding questions, the analysis of which constitutes the main goal of our work. The analysis is based on the distinction between the aspects of legality and of legitimacy. The legality of a constitutional amendment concerns two considerations. The first is whether the amendment is legally valid in terms of the constitutional norms. The constitutional norms here refer mainly to the procedural requirements or amendment mechanism, which the constitutional amendments have to meet. The second consideration is whether the amendment must conform to some (superior) principles, values etc. Depending on how one conceives of those superior principles, one may approach the issue at hand from the natural law perspective or legal positivism. In the present work, we stick to the legal positivism in accounting for the legality of unconstitutional constitutional amendments. The legitimacy of a constitutional amendment concerns the merit of the amendment according to political morality, namely, whether it is a good or a bad thing, with regard to the value that the constitutional amendment should pursue. Equally, the legitimacy of the substantive ii judicial review of constitutional amendments concerns whether it is a bad or good thing to confer on a court of an extra-ordinary power in a system, which is subscribed to constitutional democracy. This is a normative account of legitimacy, but it is not the only one. Legitimacy may also be approached sociologically, i.e. descriptively. In the latter account, legitimacy is examined on the basis of the political morality, which a legal and political order actually aims to achieve and pursue. These actual aims might be ideal or not (from an outsider and/or insider point of view). We will follow this sociological account in our analysis of the legitimacy of the judicial review of constitutional amendments. The analysis of the issue is carried out through a comparative law perspective. In this respect, three jurisdictions are examined: Germany, India, and Turkey, which provide the most prominent examples of case law concerning the judicial review of constitutional amendments on substantive grounds.
Download or read book Democratizing Constitutional Law written by Thomas Bustamante and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically discusses the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism. It does so with a view to respond to objections raised by legal and political philosophers who are sceptical of judicial review based on the assumption that judicial review is an undemocratic institution. The book builds on earlier literature on the moral justification of the authority of constitutional courts, and on the current attempts to develop a system on “weak judicial review”. Although different in their approach, the chapters all focus on devising institutions, procedures and, in a more abstract way, normative conceptions to democratize constitutional law. These democratizing strategies may vary from a radical objection to the institution of judicial review, to a more modest proposal to justify the authority of constitutional courts in their “deliberative performance” or to create constitutional juries that may be more aware of a community’s constitutional morality than constitutional courts are. The book connects abstract theoretical discussions about the moral justification of constitutionalism with concrete problems, such as the relation between constitutional adjudication and deliberative democracy, the legitimacy of judicial review in international institutions, the need to create new institutions to democratize constitutionalism, the connections between philosophical conceptions and constitutional practices, the judicial review of constitutional amendments, and the criticism on strong judicial review.
Download or read book Courts Politics and Constitutional Law written by Martin Belov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the judicialization of politics, and the politicization of courts, affect representative democracy, rule of law, and separation of powers. This volume critically assesses the phenomena of judicialization of politics and politicization of the judiciary. It explores the rising impact of courts on key constitutional principles, such as democracy and separation of powers, which is paralleled by increasing criticism of this influence from both liberal and illiberal perspectives. The book also addresses the challenges to rule of law as a principle, preconditioned on independent and powerful courts, which are triggered by both democratic backsliding and the mushrooming of populist constitutionalism and illiberal constitutional regimes. Presenting a wide range of case studies, the book will be a valuable resource for students and academics in constitutional law and political science seeking to understand the increasingly complex relationships between the judiciary, executive and legislature.
Download or read book Amending the Constitution Relative to the Taking of Private Property written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (83) S.J. Res. 3.
Download or read book Reapportionment of State Legislatures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers. S.J. Res. 2, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reserve to the people of each state power to determine the composition of its legislature and the apportionment of the membership thereof in accordance with law and the provisions of the U.S. Constitution. S.J. Res. 37 and S.J. Res. 38, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit membership in one house of a state legislature composed of more than one house to be apportioned with the approval of the electorate upon a system other than that of equal representation. S.J. Res. 44, to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit any state to apportion one house of its legislature on factors other than population with the approval of a majority of its voters. Includes texts of Supreme Court decisions, p. 1025-1125.
Download or read book The Amending of the Federal Constitution written by Lester Bernhardt Orfield and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Amendment to Restore Legislative Veto written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy written by John Agresto and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the growth of the power of the Supreme Court and analyzes the separation of judicial and congressional functions.
Download or read book Constitutional Amendments written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Standing Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers constitutional amendment proposals to authorize state government appointments for House of Representatives' vacancies during national emergencies, to establish nation-wide primaries for Presidential and Vice Presidential nominations, to reduce the voting age to 18, and to prohibit the election of Federal judiciary members to public office.
Download or read book Judicial Review of Legislative Acts written by Chakradhar Jha and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Constitutional Review written by Henry Campbell Black and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews".
Download or read book Judicial Review Or Confrontation written by Hans Raj Khanna and published by Delhi : Macmillan Company of India. This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the question whether the 1973 judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the Kesavananda Bharati case and the concept of a basic structure of a constitution necessarily create a confrontation between the courts and the legislature.
