Constitutional Change and Direct Democracy: Modern Challenges and Exciting OpportunitiesA description of today's symposium announced that "[c]ontributors will focus on the structural, normative and contextual factors that distinguish state constituAmar, Vikram D...
constitutional amendmentThis Essay was prepared for the "Governing by Initiative" conference at the University of Colorado in September 1994. At the state level, unlike theBaker, Lynn Asocial science electronic publishingBaker, Lynn A. 1995. Constitutional Change and Direct Democracy. University of ...
A direct democracy is a government in which the people themselves make the laws rather than elect representatives to do it for them. A constitutional... Learn more about this topic: Government Overview, Functions & Types from Chapter 1/ Lesson 1 ...
How is a direct democracy like a republic? What is constitutional law in the U.S.? Which principle of American democracy is represented in the Preamble to the Constitution? What branch of government decides if laws are constitutional?
While parting, the Court categorically underscored the importance of Guarantor Institutions and Fourth Branch Institutions in a democracy, and rebuked the EC noting that it had failed to discharge its function as a Guarantor Institution during the 2024 general elections, as the circumstances in this ...
Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy.Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy.This article investigates the way people evaluate whether a constitution lives up to the ideal of popular sovereignty. It is argued that as notions of autonomy and respect have evolved...
(e.g.Vishaka vs State of Rajasthan), some of which were about the meaning of “State” (Zee Telefilms), some of which were about direct horizontality (IMA vs Union of India), and some of which are utterly irrelevant to the question altogether (theRTEjudgment). Having slashed and burned...
The EU’s foundational values democracy, human rights and rule of law are shared by the Member States and rooted in their constitutional traditions. C
Although allowing justices of constitutional courts to publish their separate opinions has become a clear trend in Europe, until an amendment to the Law on the Constitutional Court in 2008, the justices of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lith
It appears that reducing corruption in justice alone causes a direct reduction of corruption in politics. Since fighting corruption is very costly, the result highlights the additional benefit of devoting greater resources to curbing judicial corruption. This is a preview of subscription content, log ...