Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: constitutional culture

  • The Brazilian Constitutional Amendment Rate: A Culture of Change?

    —Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília Tom Ginsburg and James Melton, in their fascinating article “Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty, raise a powerful argument against the well-worn claim that the number of amendments is directly related to the flexibility of constitutions.[1]