Applying Constitutional Principles

• Riccardo Guastini ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Genoa

     University of Genoa

     Genoa, Italia

     
• Localización: Analisi e diritto = Análisis y derecho = Law and analysis = Droit et analyse = Análise e direito, ISSN 1126-5779, Nº. 2016, 2016, págs. 241-249
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper is about the judicial application of constitutional principles, which involves (at least) four kinds of intellectual operations: i) identification, ii) interpretation, iii) balancing, and iv) specification. Such different operations cannot be sharply distinguished from a psychological point of view, but each of them is submitted to a separate logical analysis. The analysis is meant to show that the judicial application of constitutional principles is a genuine law-creating practice, in such way that, in a sense, "the Constitution is what the judges say it is".