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The Notion of a Living Constitution
, 2017THE NOTION OF A LIVING CONSTITUTION At least one of the more than half-dozen persons nominated during the past decade to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States has been asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee at his ...
William H. Rehnquist
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The Oxford handbook of the Indian Constitution
, 2016and Keywords This chapter explores the constitutional provisions, cases, legislation, and parliamentary debates on reservations in India. It begins with a discussion of three main beneficiary groups of reservation policy recognised by the Indian ...
S. Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, P. Mehta
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1. Constitutions and Constitutional Law
2014This chapter examines the specific functions and characteristics of constitutions in general terms—thinking of what the constitutions of Western democratic countries are typically like—rather than with particular reference to the UK, and then considers how the UK’s constitutional arrangements measure up.
Mark Elliott, Robert Thomas
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The Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt
, 2016The Head of the State... Taking into account the results of the referendum on the amendment of the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt conducted on May 22, l 980; The public consensus to amend the Constitution; And cognizant of article 189 of the ...
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
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Constitutional Possibility and Constitutional Evolution
2011Law and economics has arguably become one of the most influential theories in contemporary legal theory and adjudication. The essays in this volume, authored by both legal scholars and economists, constitute lively and critical engagements between law and economics and new institutional economics from the perspectives of legal and evolutionary theory ...
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Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Courts as Guardians of the Constitution?
Constellations, 2012A great number of petitions reached the Hungarian Constitutional Court concerning the November 2010 constitutional amendments that sought to curtail the Court‟s powers and allow for the possibility of implementing a tax measure with retroactive effect. In their decision 61/2011. (VII. 13.), which was accompanied by three dissenting and three concurring
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The Constitution of Japan and Constitutional Reform
Asia-Pacific Review, 2016Although there have been movements to revise the Constitution of Japan, the original text has remained in effect for 70 years. This article examines the rules of constitutional revision, the basis on which the Constitution was drafted, and the ramifications of an unmodified constitution. Japan's Constitution is compared in terms of length and number of
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2014
This chapter deals with constitutional law, and focuses upon: 1. The nature of states and their sovereignty; 2. The ways in which state power is constrained; 3. Democratic control over state power. Keywordsprime ministerjudicial reviewelectoral collegeexecutive powerconstitutional courtthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
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This chapter deals with constitutional law, and focuses upon: 1. The nature of states and their sovereignty; 2. The ways in which state power is constrained; 3. Democratic control over state power. Keywordsprime ministerjudicial reviewelectoral collegeexecutive powerconstitutional courtthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
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