With respect to the election of the U.S. President, the U.S. Constitution is vague and full of silences and gaps. Responding to the constitutional crisis of 1876, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) attempted to offer more specific rules. The ECA was a major advance, but in important ways, it...

Access to food is a necessity for human survival. It is also part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end hunger in all its forms across the world. Although the right to food is not one of the fundamental rights guaranteed in Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of...

The rights and aspirations of the Constitution of South Africa are expressly recognised in competition legislation. This recognition, as well as the principle of constitutional supremacy, enjoin competition authorities and courts to interpret and adjudicate competition matters in a manner that...

Fundamental legal principles and rights may function as a check on legislative power protecting citizens against arbitrary interferences of tax legislation with their lives. We’ll start with a description of the fundamental protection of individual rights that exists under Dutch national law...

In 1970 four new equality provisions were added to the Illinois Constitution, including two explicit equal protection provisions and two explicit antidiscrimination provisions. Shortly thereafter, Elmer Gertz, the Chair of the Bill of Rights Committee for the relevant constitutional convention,...

Constitutional democracy is in decline and many would-be autocrats try to elude constitutional constraints or even to exploit constitutions in their favor. We make a number of proposals for designing constitutions that are more resilient against such attempts. A first look at the empirical...