The foundations and traditions of constitutional amendment

Amendment power, constituent power, and popular sovereignty : linking unamendability and amendment procedures / Yaniv Roznai -- Constitutional theory and cognitive estrangement : beyond revolutions, amendments, and constitutional moments / Zoran Oklopcic -- Constraints on constitutional amendment powers / Oran Doyle -- Comment on Doyle's constraints on constitutional amendment powers / Mark Tushnet -- Constituting the amendment power : a framework for comparative amendment law / Thomaz Pereira -- Siey's The spirit of constitutional democracy? / Luisa Fernanda García López -- Revolutionary reform in Venezuela : electoral rules and historical narratives in the creation of the 1999 Constitution / Joshua Braver -- "Revolutionary reform" and the seduction of constitutionalism / Juliano Zaiden Benvindo -- Constitutional sunrise / Sofia Ranchordás -- Constitutional change and interest group politics : Ireland's children's rights referendum / Oran Doyle and David Kenny -- Amendment-metrics : the good, the bad, and the frequently amended constitution / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Metrics : the good, the bad, and the frequently amended constitution / James E Fleming -- Formal amendment rules and constitutional endurance : the strange case of the commonwealth Caribbean / Derek O'Brien -- Constituting "the people" : the paradoxical place of the formal amendment procedure in Australian constitutionalism / Lael K Weis -- Hard amendment cases in Canada / Kate Glover -- The French people's role in amending the constitution : a French constitutional analysis from a pure legal perspective / Jean-Philippe Derosier -- The implication of conflation of normal and "constitutional politics" on constitutional change in Africa / Duncan Okubasu -- Direct democracy and constitutional change in the US : institutional learning from state laboratories / Dr Jurgen Goossens.

Amendment power, constituent power, and popular sovereignty : linking unamendability and amendment procedures -- Yaniv Roznai -- Constitutional theory and cognitive estrangement : beyond revolutions, amendments, and constitutional moments -- Zoran Oklopcic -- Constraints on constitutional amendment powers -- Oran Doyle -- Comment on Doyle's constraints on constitutional amendment powers -- Mark Tushnet -- Constituting the amendment power : a framework for comparative amendment law -- Thomaz Pereira -- Siey's The spirit of constitutional democracy? -- Luisa Fernanda García López -- Revolutionary reform in Venezuela : electoral rules and historical narratives in the creation of the 1999 Constitution -- Joshua Braver -- "Revolutionary reform" and the seduction of constitutionalism -- Juliano Zaiden Benvindo -- Constitutional sunrise -- Sofia Ranchordás -- Constitutional change and interest group politics : Ireland's children's rights referendum -- Oran Doyle and David Kenny -- Amendment-metrics : the good, the bad, and the frequently amended constitution -- Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Metrics : the good, the bad, and the frequently amended constitution -- James E Fleming -- Formal amendment rules and constitutional endurance : the strange case of the commonwealth Caribbean -- Derek O'Brien -- Constituting "the people" : the paradoxical place of the formal amendment procedure in Australian constitutionalism -- Lael K Weis -- Hard amendment cases in Canada -- Kate Glover -- The French people's role in amending the constitution : a French constitutional analysis from a pure legal perspective -- Jean-Philippe Derosier -- The implication of conflation of normal and "constitutional politics" on constitutional change in Africa -- Duncan Okubasu -- Direct democracy and constitutional change in the US : institutional learning from state laboratories -- Dr Jurgen Goossens.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The State of the Art in Constitutional Amendment -- I. Defining the Field -- II. The Architecture of Constitutional Amendment Rules -- III. Amendment as Constitution -- Part I The Foundations of Constitutional Amendment -- 1 -- Amendment Power, Constituent Power, and Popular Sovereignty -- I. Introduction -- II. Unamendability and Constituent Power -- III. The Constitutionalisation of Primary Constituent Power -- IV. The Spectrum of Constitutional Amendment Powers -- V. Conclusion -- 2 -- Constitutional Theory and Cognitive Estrangement -- I. Introduction: The Person of 'The People' and a Three-fold Cognitive Estrangement -- II. Beyond 'The People': New Tropes, Old Anxieties -- III. Three Forms of Estrangement-prevention: Holmes, Pettit, Dworkin -- IV. Tertium Datur: Mapping Constitutional Change Between the Revolution and the Amendment -- V. Towards a Different Familiarity: 'The People', the Paradox and the Sacrifice -- 3 -- Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers -- I. Introduction -- II. A Doctrine of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments -- III. Constraint and Powers of Constitutional Change -- IV. The Types of Constraint on Constitutional Amendment Powers -- V. Distribution of Power and the Justification of Constraint -- VI. Justification of Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers -- VII. Conclusion -- 4 -- Comment on Doyle's Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers -- 5 -- Constituting the Amendment Power -- I. Introduction -- II. Conclusion -- 6 -- Sieyès: The Spirit of Constitutional Democracy? -- I. Introduction -- II. Towards a Representative Democracy -- III. Towards a Constitutional Democracy -- IV. Conclusion -- 7 -- Revolutionary Reform in Venezuela -- I. Introduction