ISSN 0201–7385
ISSN 0130–0113
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ISSN 0201–7385
ISSN 0130–0113
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Constitutional control over constitutional amendments and politics

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Constitutional control over constitutional amendments and politics

Abstract

The bodies of the constitutional review inevitably come into contact with politics in the process of review of constitutional amendments. They can either prevent unconstitutional amendments or provoke a political crisis. The article provides and analyzes examples of judicial restraint and judicial activism in exercising of judicial review over amendments to the constitution.

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Received: 03/01/2019

Accepted: 04/01/2019

Accepted date: 04/30/2019

Keywords: constitution; judicial review of constitutional amendments; politics; political issue; judicial restraint; judicial activism

Available in the on-line version with: 30.04.2019

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Issue 2, 2019