International assistance

The role of international or external support for national processes of constitution building has an instrumental impact on the design of these processes and the institutional choices that ultimately are framed in constitutions.

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Training programme

The new Constitution Builders CONNECT Resource – is an interactive training tool that reinforces sharing experiences as a means to building the capacity of practitioners to solve some of the dilemmas that they face in constitution building.

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Handbook

The Handbook reviews and discusses some of the institutional and procedural design choices that practitioners have recently considered during contemporary constitution building.

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Issue papers

Selected issues are considered at length based on emerging and ongoing dialogues among practitioners and specialists.

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Multimedia

A collection of multimedia resources from and about constitution-building processes.

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Web links

The web links provide a comprehensive list of relevant organizations and partners working in constitution building and related subjects.

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§ Note: this is background material. The final handbook is available online in PDF format.

 Documents from the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission)

  1. Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution – Rules for Parliamentary Procedure, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)002add2 
  2. Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution – Limits to Constitutional Amendments, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)002add 
  3. Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution – The Need for Referendums / Possibilities of Adopting an Entirely New Constitution instead of Amending it / The Role of Constitutional Courts in Amending the Constitution, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)002add3 
  4. Draft Vademecum of Venice Commission Opinions on the Reports Concerning Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)001

Literature 

  1. P. Suber, Amendment, In: Christopher B. Gray (ed.), Philosophy of Law:  An Encyclopedia, Garland Pub. Co, 1999, I.31-32 (at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/amdt.htm)
  2. D. Grimm, Ist das Verfahren der Verfassungsänderung selbst änderungsbeduerftig?In: Humboldt Forum Recht 20/2007, p.213-221 (at http://www.humboldt-forum-recht.de/media/Druckansicht/pdf/2007-20.pdf)
  3. A. Twomey, The involvement of sub-national entities in direct and indirect constitutional amendment within federations, (http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/statecon/workshop11greece07/workshop11/Two...)
  4. D. S. Lutz, Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment. In American Political Science Review 88 (1994), pp. 355-370
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