Referral Clauses and Constitutional Dismemberment
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Constitutional changes, dismemberments, remission clausesAbstract
There are two types of legal norms that are fundamental for explaining constitutions: constitutional change clauses and remission clauses. Constitutional change clauses are rules that define the conditions that must be met to incorporate (or remove) rules into the constitution. Remission clauses are constitutional norms that authorize or require the application of norms that are not part of the constitution. Within this framework, the purpose of this paper is to show that conceptual confusion between reform clauses and remission clauses can lead, in certain cases, to illegitimate constitutional changes and dismemberments.
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