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Bipartisan Constitutional Reform Amendments

Wildenthal, Bryan H. - 2021

In April 2020, I posted on SSRN a proposed draft Voting Rights and Reform Act of 2021, and in August 2020, I posted a set of proposed constitutional amendments to reform the U.S. Supreme Court, the office of the U.S. Attorney General, issues relating to the inability and succession of the...

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Transnational Constitutions

Goderis, Benedikt; Versteeg, Mila - 2021

transnational influences are strongest when a nation adopts its first constitution. At this time, no less than 46 percent of the …

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Sustainability in European Constitutional Law

Jakab, András - 2015

Sustainability, as compared to the rule of law, human rights, sovereignty or democracy, is a relatively new constitutional key concept. It is mentioned explicitly more and more in constitutional discourses, and – even more importantly – it helps to reconstruct a number of current...

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Access to Constitutional Justice in the New Hungarian Constitutional Framework : Life after the Actio Popularis?

Kelemen, Katalin - 2014

The paper aims at presenting and evaluating the conditions of access to the Hungarian Constitutional Court after the coming into force of the new Fundamental Law and Constitutional Court Act on 1 January 2012. The abolition of actio popularis and the concomitant introduction of full...

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Homelessness, Constitution and Governance

Tollenaar, Albertjan - 2014

Homelessness is almost by definition a local problem, occurring in local communities, neighbourhoods or cities. It is therefore the local government that is the first to respond to the problems that accompany homelessness, including for example safety issues, maintaining public order and health...

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Commercial Banking in Angola - A Constitutional Perspective

Gonçalves, Tânia - 2019

Banks are essential for commerce and for companies in general, as they are responsible for financing operations, offering credit and investing in start-ups, thus moving our economy with the criterion of the invisible hand, "laissez faire, laissez passer" by Adam Smith.Banks have been marked by a...

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Doctorate Thesis : The Interplay of Judicial Review and Federalism Choices in Brazil after the Republican Constitution of 1988

Arlota, Carolina - 2022

This doctorate thesis investigates how federalism choices adopted by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 impacts … Constitution of 1988, as of today, is not necessarily an example of successful design. We also find, counter-intuitively, that the … to the Brazilian Supreme Court (which was transplanted from the U.S. Constitution) and its consequences for the …

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In Search of 'Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism'

Lindsay, Matthew J. - 2011

This article is a response to Professor Jed Shugerman’s Economic Crisis and the Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Review, HARVARD LAW REVIEW (2010). Professor Shugerman argues that the widespread adoption of judicial elections in the 1850’s and the embrace by the first generation of...

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Balanced budget rules and fiscal outcomes : evidence from historical constitutions

Asatryan, Zareh; Castellon, Cesar; Stratmann, Thomas - 2016

's constitution. Using historical data dating back to the 19th century and applying a difference-in-difference approach we find that … instrumenting the probability of having budget rules on de jure constraints on changing the constitution. This and other tests …

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Digital tools and the derailment of Iceland's new constitution

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Meuwese, Anne - 2016

constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as 'digital democracy …' reveals some important lessons. High-quality input into constitution-making processes through digital participation is …

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