There are different ways to amend a Constitution: alongside formal changes, i.e. consisting of specific constitutional revisions, informal changes can be identified, i.e. those transformations of the constitutional system implemented, or with legal acts that do not integrate formal constitutional revisions (ordinary laws of Parliament or referendums; organic laws or constitutional implementation, parliamentary regulations; constitutional jurisprudence) or through juridical facts (customs and constitutional conventions). Constitutional changes could, therefore, lead to a change in the Constitution, leaving the operative text formally unchanged. Boris Mirkine Guetzèvitch, referring to the concept of parliamentary rationalization, provided a broad version of its meaning: “phénomène constant du devenir constitutionnel moderne, par quoi le fait métajuridique du pouvoir le cède aux règles du droit écrit” [en: a constant phenomenon of modern constitutional development, whereby the metajuridical fact of power yields to the rules of the written law]. In this way, there would be an unwritten constitutional law which would influence the configuration of written constitutional law, determining its evolution. The intervention aims to analyze some examples of tacit modifications of the Constitution taking inspiration from the paradigmatic case of the French Third Republic and from the Romanian Constitution of 1923.

Raționalizarea parlamentară informală a constituției și instabilitatea ministerială: spații de reflexie de la A Treia Republică Franceză la Constituția română din 1923 / The informal parliamentary rationalization of the Constitution and ministerial instability: insights from the French Third Republic and the Romanian Constitution of 1923

M. Calamo Specchia
2023-01-01

Abstract

There are different ways to amend a Constitution: alongside formal changes, i.e. consisting of specific constitutional revisions, informal changes can be identified, i.e. those transformations of the constitutional system implemented, or with legal acts that do not integrate formal constitutional revisions (ordinary laws of Parliament or referendums; organic laws or constitutional implementation, parliamentary regulations; constitutional jurisprudence) or through juridical facts (customs and constitutional conventions). Constitutional changes could, therefore, lead to a change in the Constitution, leaving the operative text formally unchanged. Boris Mirkine Guetzèvitch, referring to the concept of parliamentary rationalization, provided a broad version of its meaning: “phénomène constant du devenir constitutionnel moderne, par quoi le fait métajuridique du pouvoir le cède aux règles du droit écrit” [en: a constant phenomenon of modern constitutional development, whereby the metajuridical fact of power yields to the rules of the written law]. In this way, there would be an unwritten constitutional law which would influence the configuration of written constitutional law, determining its evolution. The intervention aims to analyze some examples of tacit modifications of the Constitution taking inspiration from the paradigmatic case of the French Third Republic and from the Romanian Constitution of 1923.
2023
978-606-95736-0-0
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