From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 November 2024
- Subject(s):
- Amendment or revision — Constitutional design — Rule of law — Judicial review — Constitutions and amendments — Elections — Authoritarianism — Democracy — Illiberal regimes — Fundamental rights
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 A democratic and liberal model of constitutionalism emerged as a default design choice for national political systems across Europe and North America in the wake of World War II and through les Trentes Glorieuses. It then diffused more widely across the globe with the Third Wave of democracy. Central to this form of constitutionalism was a written basic law that contained an enumeration of individual rights; a rights-centred scheme of judicial review; a heightened threshold for textual amendment of the constitution (amendment or revision of constitutions); a...
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