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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"constitutional change"”.
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Informal constitutional change: towards a South African theory of unconstitutional constitutional change
… of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 has changed more times than it has been amended. In this dissertation, I explore the phenomenon of informal constitutional change. In particular: I focus on how courts are able to change the content, scope and meaning of a constitution without its text …
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Constitutional change in the United Kingdom: an institutional analysis
… thesis seeks to explain the lack of significant constitutional change in the UK between 1945 and 1980 and has two main findings. First, and principally, the thesis rejects conventional understandings of the UK constitution based upon Dicey's analysis and the Westminster model of British politics. …
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… efforts to reconcile growing disharmonies in a constitutional system are no longer sufficient, requiring a new approach that will transform the identity of the constitutional order. The periodic need for transformative change has led scholars to analyze constitutional revolutions and their role …
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Domestic politics or EU influence: what is driving Turkey's constitutional reforms?
… amendment packages with more than 100 individual changes made to the constitution. Most of this constitutional reform has happened since the European Union (EU) announced that Turkey had achieved candidate status for eventual membership in the Union in 1999. Many scholars attribute Turkey’s …
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Governance & Legal Reform in Countries Emerging from Conflict
… literature by exploring how conflict states use constitutional reform to foster development and democratic transition, particularly among countries that have emerged from civil war. These include the United States, Spain, and Sri Lanka, which, in each of the past three centuries, have experienced …
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The Times and the Manchester Guardian’s editorial perspectives on Irish Home Rule and the adoption of referendum debates during the British constitutional crisis: December 1910-August 1911
… during the closing stages of the British constitutional crisis of 1911. The traditional and conventional constraints on the House of Lords were replaced with constraints based on the law namely the Parliament Act 1911. The Act gave financial control of the state to the House of Commons, …
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Brazilian, Feminist Non-Governmental Organisations - a Force for Change: Constructing Citizenship through Health Sector Reform and Delivery of Reproductive Rights
… to address marginality and instigate constitutional change to deliver health services to women. <br></br><br></br> The methodological framework is the Extended Case Study Method (Burawoy 1991, 2000), which draws on different and complementary ethnographic research traditions. …
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Irish republicans and Basque abertzales: to what extent is the Irish peace process an effective model for a Basque peace process?
… been accompanied by a move away from fundamental constitutional change as an objective for republicans, and increasingly abertzales, to new, albeit ambiguously stated, objectives around self-determination. The extent to which the objectives of the separatist nationalists and the other political …
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Constitutional tax limits at the state level: an overview and selected case studies
… in June 1978 focused widespread attention on constitutional constraints on government's power to tax. In addition, Proposition 13, along with the political events that led up to the inception of this particular amendment and subsequent amendments in other states, reversed the traditional …
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The Jurisprudence of Thomas M. Cooley: Why One of the Most Important Jurists of the Nineteenth Century Still Matters
… the most important legal commentator on American constitutional law, second only perhaps to Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and yet today he is largely forgotten. Cooley’s position as a legal authority diminished decades after his death, either coincidentally or causally around the time a …
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The Viceroyalty of Lord Reading, 1921-1926: with particular reference to the political and constitutional progress of India
… from 1921-26, with particular reference to the constitutional and political progress of India during that time. Reading faced political unrest from two organisations, the non-co-operation movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, and the Khilafat movement, under the Ali Brothers, which were temporarily …
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Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: Constitutional Functions and Effects
… held on questions which are *not* fundamental constitutional issues. In the wake of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and the 2016 Brexit referendum, much was written on how referendums on certain constitutional issues could be understood to operate within Westminster-style …
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Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina Legal Culture, 1865-1874
… citizenship and made equality before the law a constitutional requirement. These national constitutional amendments brought revolutionary change to America's foundational law, but it was up to state and local legal actors to incorporate this change into the law that governed the everyday lives …
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The role of monetary and financial reform in approaching the European Union: the case of Serbia
… took place against a background of frequent constitutional changes over the period 1989 to 2004. Serbia’s transition began in December 1989 with the Markovic programme, while the Republic was a constitutive part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The study confirms that …
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Employee participation and voice in companies : a legal perspective
… labour practices. Social as well as political change became evident after South Africa's re-entry into the world in the 1990s. Change to socio-economic conditions in a developing country is also evident. These changes have a major influence on South African labour law. Like company law, labour …
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Fiji and the franchise : a history of political representation, 1900-1937
… Lo them opens a new source of conflict, the constitutional implications of which are discussed in Chapters VII, VIII and IX. Since the Fijians were not the proponents cf constitutional change they receive considerably less attention. But they cannot be ignored,as their presence and rights …
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Fiji and the franchise : a history of political representation, 1900-1937
… Lo them opens a new source of conflict, the constitutional implications of which are discussed in Chapters VII, VIII and IX. Since the Fijians were not the proponents cf constitutional change they receive considerably less attention. But they cannot be ignored,as their presence and rights …
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Access to justice in environmental law: An investigation of the locus standi of environmental pressure groups in English law and the creation of an environmental court
… The environmental movement is an example of change being instigated from the bottom rather than the top (see Hague Manual of Environmental Policy, Introduction Chapter). I believe that if we are to rely upon the State and regulatory bodies created by the state to protect and police our …