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Commanders-in-chief beyond the border: analysing the powers of heads of state in Northern American federalism
(Tiago de Melo Cartaxo/Essay)
(Tiago de Melo Cartaxo/Essay)
... the United States Founding Fathers opted to follow a republican and presidential path, the Canadian constitutional system developed a framework under the British monarchic background, in part as a rejection ...
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Answers to Spanish centrifugal federalism: Asymmetrical federalism versus coercive federalism
(Esther Seijas Villadangos/Essay)
(Esther Seijas Villadangos/Essay)
... Differential facts would be the headquarters of this asymmetric federal company. From a different point of view, the path of coercive federalism might come from both the rejection by other territories ...
... way points to the need to reject the currently fashionable ‘broad’ definition (following Elazar) in favour of a return to a ‘narrow’ differentiated definition (following Wheare). Further, it illuminates ...
... arising from a direct popular initiative or a PLI rejected by Parliament. The Autonomous Communities have regulated PLIs with the same reluctance as they have had regulating the Constitution and the Organic ...
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Constitutional Failure or Constitutional Odyssey? What Can We Learn From Comparative Law?
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)
According to many scholars, the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty and the disappointment caused by the contents of the Lisbon Treaty –- defined by Somek (2007) as a mere post-Constitutional Treaty ...
... for a failed reform. In this situation weaker Länder saw the new constitutional debt regime as more acceptable than rejecting a reform. ...