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How a Court Becomes Supreme: Defending the Constitution from Unconstitutional Amendments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
High courts around the world have increasingly invalidated constitutional amendments in defense of their view of democracy, answering in the affirmative what was once a paradoxical question with no obvious answer: can a constitutional amendment be ...
Albert, Richard
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The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Principles in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Legal Theory and Judicial Deciding

open access: yesLaw: Journal of the University of Latvia, 2018
The basic thesis of this essay is that constitutional principles and legal rules can have a meaning in judicial decision, when legal order imparts significance to judicial practice. Research and analysis of implementation of constitutional principles in
Davor Trlin
doaj   +1 more source

Democratic Consent for the Windsor Framework

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Windsor Framework establishes a unique status for Northern Ireland in the UK‐EU relationship that has proven controversial, particularly for unionists. It also provides members of the Northern Ireland Assembly with regular opportunities to give their ‘democratic consent’ to the continued application of arrangements in the Windsor Framework
David Phinnemore
wiley   +1 more source

Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Evidentiary Basis of Congress's Commerce Clause Power to Address Individuals' Health Insurance Status [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Outlines the issues involved in whether the 2010 Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is constitutional under the commerce clause, presents research literature on the effect of uninsurance on the broader economy, and reviews the lower courts ...
Holly Mead   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial Defence of Constitutionalism in the Assessment of South Africa's International Obligations

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2019
The (sometimes fragile) balance between South Africa's constitutional obligations to protect and promote human rights in the international arena and the realities of political practice is the focus of this paper.
Francois Venter
doaj   +1 more source

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