Judicial Control over Althingi: Altered Balance of Powers in the Constitutional System

• Published in: Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
• Main Author: Thorarensen, Björg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Stjórnsýslustofnun 2016
• Subjects: Separation of powers; constitutional democracy; judicial review; human rights; control over the legislature; rule of law; Þrískipting ríkisvalds; stjórnarskrárbundið lýðræði; endurskoðunarvald dómstóla; mannréttindi; eftirlit með löggjafanum; réttarríki; Norway; Veita; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2016.12.1.2; https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.1.2

The article focuses on how the control of the judiciary over the legislature has increased in the last decades and the reasons for altered balance of powers in the Icelandic constitutional system are explored. Earlier theories of parliamentary precedence over other branches of state power are in tra...