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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Ratification of Constitutions

Frederik Becker

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
February 2018

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constituent assemblies — Ratification — Legitimacy

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. The ratification (Latin ratificatio) of a constitution describes the formal ending of a process of setting a constitution into force by a constituent power. At the same time, the moment of the ratification or a defined date in the near future is regularly set as the legal beginning of the applicability of the newly ratified constitution. The ratification in the sense of this article means the confirmation of a constitution by a duly legitimated power. It is the final, affirmative act of a ‘series of acts that lead to the adoption of a new constitution’...
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