There Is No Supreme Constitution A Critique of Statist-Individualist Constitutionalism.

None of the articles of faith of the South African Constitution is plausible. The Constitution is not supreme and entrenched. Vulnerable to potent socio-political forces it changes continuously and often profoundly regardless of stringent amendment requirements. The trite threefold separation of pow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malan, Koos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stellenbosch : African Sun Media, 2019.
Temas:
Constitutional law > South Africa.
Droit constitutionnel > Afrique du Sud.
Constitutional law
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Constitutionalism
  • Introduction
  • The core characteristics of constitutionalism
  • Normativity
  • the commitment to justice
  • Fundamental (higher) law
  • The consensual basis of the rule of law
  • customary law-abiding conduct
  • Limited government
  • diffusion and balance of power
  • the idea of the mixed constitution
  • public office
  • Chapter 2
  • Statist-individualist Constitutionalism
  • Introduction
  • Statism
  • paving the way to statist constitutionalism
  • The establishment of statist-individualist constitutionalism
  • The nine essential beliefs of statist-individualist constitutionalism
  • State-based positive law, more specifically the formulations of the Constitution, is omnipresent
  • The Constitution is rigid and actually supreme
  • The Constitution is formulation-driven and has a formal-static character
  • The supreme value that is placed on the formulations
  • the written words of the constitutional Document
  • Pre-political
  • The trias politica and the independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the judiciary
  • The preoccupation
  • fixation
  • with micro theory (and the statist-individualist approach to interpretation)
  • The twosome consortium of the state and the individual
  • state sovereignty and abstract universal, individual human rights
  • The state is anti-communitarian and anti-pluralist
  • Statist-individualist constitutionalism's three key mechanisms
  • Supremacy proclamations, entrenchment and conformity mechanisms, andstrict amendment requirements
  • The trias politica, checks and balances and the independence andimpartiality of the judiciary
  • Bills of individual rights
  • Chapter 3
  • Statist-individualist Constitutionalism in Post 1994 South Africa
  • Introduction
  • The key mechanisms of statist-individualist constitutionalism in the South African constitutional order
  • Supremacy proclamation, entrenchment and conformity mechanisms and strict amendment requirements
  • Trias politica, checks and balances and the independence and impartiality of the judiciary
  • The (justiciable) Bill of Rights
  • The statist-individualist belief system in the South African constitutional discourse
  • Chapter 4
  • There is no Supreme Constitution
  • Introduction
  • Law's dual dimensionality
  • Conceptual clarification: legal norms and legal norm-formulations
  • The basic thesis of the factual requisite (or dimension) of law
  • The doctrine's faith-strengthening language
  • Exposition of the factual requisite of law and critique of the doctrine
  • Substituting law arising from the behaviour of public office-bearers
  • Lapsed law resulting from the behaviour of public office-bearers
  • Substituting or lapsed law arising from the behaviour of(segments of) the public
  • Still-born law, including still-born constitutional law
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5
  • The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is not Supreme and its Rights Not Entrenched

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