The sudden eagerness to consult the luxemburgish people on constitutional change
peer reviewed Recent examples of constitutional amendments in Iceland and Ireland and the current debates in Scotland and Catalonia regarding referendums on regional autonomy have stimulated a renewal in academic research on the involvement of the people in constitution making and constitutional ame...
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ftunivluxembourg:oai:orbilu.uni.lu:10993/19504 2024-04-21T08:05:47+00:00 The sudden eagerness to consult the luxemburgish people on constitutional change Gerkrath, Jörg 2016-10 https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/19504 https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/19504/1/The%20sudden%20eagerness_final.pdf en eng Routledge http://www.routledge.com/Participatory-Constitutional-Change-The-People-as-Amenders-of-the-Constitution/Contiades-Fotiadou/p/book/9781472478696 https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/19504 info:hdl:10993/19504 https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/19504/1/The%20sudden%20eagerness_final.pdf open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess urn:isbn:9781472478696 Participatory Constitutional Change: The people as amenders of the Constitution, 139-155 (2016-10); Constitutional change and the people, 12-12-2014 constitutional change Referendum Law criminology & political science Public law Droit criminologie & sciences politiques Droit public conference paper http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject peer reviewed 2016 ftunivluxembourg 2024-03-27T14:11:28Z peer reviewed Recent examples of constitutional amendments in Iceland and Ireland and the current debates in Scotland and Catalonia regarding referendums on regional autonomy have stimulated a renewal in academic research on the involvement of the people in constitution making and constitutional amendment including the question - raised recently in Switzerland – how to avoid that referendums bring about unlawful restrictions to fundamental rights. This raises a more general question of how to reconcile the basic principles of (direct) democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights. Such questions are also relevant for the legal situation in Luxembourg marked by the ongoing procedure of constitutional restatement, which was initiated in April 2009. The government decided indeed to submit several questions to a consultative referendum in 2015 before pursuing the parliamentary procedure and come to a final, decisive, referendum on the amendment proposal in 2016. This develop is part of a broader tendency to introduce, in Luxembourg and elsewhere, elements of direct democracy such as referendums, citizens’ initiatives and online petitions into political systems organized as representative democracies. The roundtable aims to identify and discuss the main procedural, legal and theoretical problems raised in general by popular consent in the field of constitutional change. Conference Object Iceland University of Luxembourg: ORBilu - Open Repository and Bibliography |
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peer reviewed Recent examples of constitutional amendments in Iceland and Ireland and the current debates in Scotland and Catalonia regarding referendums on regional autonomy have stimulated a renewal in academic research on the involvement of the people in constitution making and constitutional amendment including the question - raised recently in Switzerland – how to avoid that referendums bring about unlawful restrictions to fundamental rights. This raises a more general question of how to reconcile the basic principles of (direct) democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights. Such questions are also relevant for the legal situation in Luxembourg marked by the ongoing procedure of constitutional restatement, which was initiated in April 2009. The government decided indeed to submit several questions to a consultative referendum in 2015 before pursuing the parliamentary procedure and come to a final, decisive, referendum on the amendment proposal in 2016. This develop is part of a broader tendency to introduce, in Luxembourg and elsewhere, elements of direct democracy such as referendums, citizens’ initiatives and online petitions into political systems organized as representative democracies. The roundtable aims to identify and discuss the main procedural, legal and theoretical problems raised in general by popular consent in the field of constitutional change. |
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