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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Entrenched Clauses

Jane Reis Gonçalves Pereira

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 14 November 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutions and international law — Supraconstitutional authority — Supremacy — Comparative constitutional law

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

1 In broad terms, legal entrenchment is frequently associated with constitutional rigidity. Constitutions are generally described as rigid or entrenched if the procedure needed to modify them is more demanding than the one applied to ordinary legislation, including additional requirements such as, for instance, special majorities, approval by the electorate, endorsement by other branches of government, and time intervals (rigid (entrenched) / flexible constitutions). Besides this classical model of rigidity, some constitutional systems go further and state that...
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