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Constitutions as Intergenerational Contracts: Flexible or fixed?
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Abstract Constitutions enshrine the fundamental values of a people and build a framework for a state's public policy. With regard to intergenerational justice, their endurance gives rise to two concerns: the (forgone) welfare concern and the sovereignty concern. In this paper, I outline a procedure for const... mehr
Constitutions enshrine the fundamental values of a people and build a framework for a state's public policy. With regard to intergenerational justice, their endurance gives rise to two concerns: the (forgone) welfare concern and the sovereignty concern. In this paper, I outline a procedure for constitution-amending that is intergenerationally just. In its line of reasoning, the paper debates ideas such as perpetual constitutions, sunset constitutions, constitutional reform commissions and constitutional conventions both historically and analytically. It arrives at the conclusion that recurrent constitutional reform commissions in fixed time intervals strike the best balance between the necessary rigidity and the necessary flexibility of constitutions.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Verfassung; Generationenvertrag; Verfassungsänderung; Reform; Konstitutionalismus; Gerechtigkeit; Generationenverhältnis
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 4-17
Zeitschriftentitel
Intergenerational Justice Review, 3 (2017) 1
Heftthema
Constitutions as Intergenerational Contracts: Flexible or fixed? (II)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24357/igjr.10.1.581
ISSN
2190-6335
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)