The Architecture of Constitutional Amendments: History, Law, Politics
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: How Should Constitutions Codify Amendments? -- I. Writing Rights and Wrongs -- II. The Appendative Model: A Memorial to the Past -- III. The Integrative Model: A Lawyerly Record -- IV. The Invisible Model: An Illusion of Perfection -- V. The Disaggregative Model: Separate Sites of Constitutional Significance -- VI. Hybrid Models in the World -- VII. An Agenda for Constitutional Research -- 1. The Traces of Formalism: The Invisible Spanish Model of Constitutional Codification -- I. Introduction -- II. An Examination of the Spanish Constitution -- III. Formalism and Invisibility: Two Sides of the Same Coin -- IV. Conclusion -- 2. The Presentist Portuguese Constitution -- I. Introduction -- II. Codifying Constitution Amendments in Portugal -- III. Conclusions: Understanding Amendment Invisibility in Portugal -- 3. Caught Between: On the Distinctive Character of Mexico's Model of Amendment Codification -- I. Introduction -- II. Tracking the Past -- III. Framing the Mechanism -- IV. Implementing the Model(s) -- V. A Disharmonic Constitution -- 4. The Incorporation of Amendments in Paraguayan Constitutionalism -- I. Introduction: Reframing Amendment Discourse in Paraguay -- II. A Short History of Paraguayan Constitutions and Constitutional Amendments -- III. Making Sense of the Disaggregative Model in the Paraguayan Context -- IV. The Errata of the 1992 Constitution: An Experiment with the Integrative Model? -- V. Amendment Rules in the 1992 Constitution: A Critical Assessment -- VI. Taking Amendment (and Amendment Codification) Rules Seriously -- VII. Conclusion -- 5. The Codification of Constitutional Amendments in Brazil: Beyond the Appendative and Integrative Models -- I. Introduction -- II. The Theoretical Foundations of Codification of Constitutional Amendments.