Constitutional courts: A primer for decision makers

Article Abstract:

Courts empowered to overturn legislative acts have spread rapidly in the past few years even in undemocratic regimes. If carefully designed and limited, constitutional courts may aid democratic consolidation and make a new regime a state governed by law and respectful of its citizens but if not, they can become objects of political strife, impediments to democracy, and bad influences on legal development. It is therefore imperative that constitutional designers put in place a constitutional court that has adequate powers.

United States, Powers and duties, Constitutional courts

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The cracked foundations of the right to secede

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This article addresses the claim that ethnic minorities have both a legal and moral right to secede from states. The author argues self-determination movements , which have risen drastically since the end of the Cold War,?are dangerous, and secession does not end old resentments, but creates new ones.

World, Ethics, Political activity, Ethical aspects, Minorities, Secession

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The quest for self-rule in Tibet

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The calls for autonomy in Tibet that would promote both democracy and human rights, and the Chinese opposition of the idea of Tibetan self-rule are discussed.

China, Government domestic functions, Social aspects, Evaluation, Social policy, Tibet, Dalai Lama

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