Constitutional amendment in France

• Autores: Wanda Mastor, Liliane Icher
• Localización: Engineering Constitutional Change: A comparative perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA / Xenophon Contiades (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-52976-1, págs. 115-124
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The issue of constitutional amendment has a lot to say about the nature and the functioning of a political regime and about the Constitution itself: “the importance given to the constitutional amendment depends on the notion of Constitution in the history of contemporary constitutionalism.”1 The Constitution, charter of the rule of law, is conceived to survive; there is no doubt that the constituents worked with the idea of eternity in mind. However “paradoxically, it is the possibility of amendment that enables the Constitution’s preservation.”2 Indeed, whatever the degree of rigidity of the Constitution, the text has to provide scope for adaptation and evolution, either by superfi cial alteration or by radical reform.