Title: A Symposium on Richard Albert’s <i>Constitutional Amendments</i>
Abstract: Richard Albert has written a very interesting book discussing various methods of constitutional amendment, which offers a sophisticated multilevel analysis of the topic. Albert draws from comparative, doctrinal, historical, and theoretical perspectives to show how constitutions structure their amendment rules and to explain when amendment is appropriate and when it is not. He discusses how amendment has been used for grand political and social objectives and how it transforms both law and society. Amendments settle controversies and reflect changes in society. They offer ways to respond to the changing political, social, economic, and other needs of the community. For instance, the Irish amendment on abortion ended long-lasting debates on the rights of the mother to terminate a pregnancy and the right to life of the fetus, which was, until the amendment, protected by the Irish Constitution.1 Albert discusses how culture can accelerate, redirect, or incapacitate constitutional amendment. The book...
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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