Constitutional Directives: Morally‐Committed Political Constitutionalism
| Autor: | Khaitan, T |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Judicial review media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Identity (social science) Constitutionalism Scholarship Politics State (polity) Political science 050501 criminology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Law Legitimacy Directive Principles 0505 law Law and economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Modern Law Review. 82:603-632 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2230 0026-7961 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2230.12423 |
| Popis: | About 37 state constitutions around the world feature non-justiciable thick moral commitments (‘constitutional directives’). These directives typically oblige the state to redistribute income and wealth, guarantee social minimums, or forge a religious or secular identity for the state. They have largely been ignored in a constitutional scholarship defined by its obsession with the legitimacy of judicial review and hostility to constitutionalising thick moral commitments other than basic rights. This article presents constitutional directives as obligatory telic norms, addressed primarily to the political state, which constitutionalise thick moral objectives. Their full realisation—through increasingly sophisticated mechanisms designed to ensure their political enforcement—is deferred to a future date. They are weakly contrajudicative in that these duties are not directly enforced by courts. Functionally, they help shape the discourse over a state's constitutional identity, and regulate its political and judicial organs. Properly understood, they are a key tool to realise a morally-committed conception of political constitutionalism. |
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