Constitutional Amendments¶
Albert, R. (2019). Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions. Oxford University Press.
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- Open-Closed Principle
- In constitutional design, an inviolate core of rights and governmental structure is paired with an amendable surface of statute and regulation — and the amendment procedure itself is kernel-protected, requiring a supermajority to touch.
This sourceAnalyzes constitutional entrenchment and unamendability — how an inviolable core (rights and governmental structure) is walled off behind supermajority/ratification amendment procedures that are themselves kernel-protected, so the core resists the churn of ordinary politics.
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Abstract only: Albert argues amendment rules are the most consequential part of a constitution, which backs the claim's frame but not its inviolable-core/supermajority architecture.
“Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions shows that no part of a constitution is more important than the procedures we use change it.”
- In constitutional design, an inviolate core of rights and governmental structure is paired with an amendable surface of statute and regulation — and the amendment procedure itself is kernel-protected, requiring a supermajority to touch.
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