1st Edition

Comparative Constitutional Reform in Latin America

Edited By Richard Albert Copyright 2027
250 Pages
by Routledge

Some constitutional amendments are not really amendments. They are transformative constitutional reforms that reject the essential characteristics of the constitution and destroy its foundations. These constitutional changes demolish the basic structure of the constitution while at the same time building a new foundation rooted in principles contrary to the old. Latin America has been... Read more

Introduction: Constitutional Amendment or Constitutional Dismemberment?
Richard Albert

Chapter 1: Argentina's Constitutional Strain and Institutional Anomie
Jeronimo Lau Alberdi

Chapter 2: Constitutional Dismemberment in Brazil: Perpetuating and Reinforcing Inequality
Juliano Zaiden Benvindo and Manuellita Hermes

Chapter 3: Consequences and Limits of Structural Constitutional Dismemberment: The Case of Chile
Cristián Villalonga and Alejandra Ovalle Valdés

Chapter 4: Reforming or Dismembering the Constitution: An Approach to Constitutional Dismemberment in Colombia
Milton César Jiménez Ramírez

Chapter 5: The Cuban Constitutional Reforms of 1992 and 2002 as Examples of Constitutional Dismemberment
Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada and Michel Fernández Pérez

Chapter 6: The Rules of Constitutional Reform in Ecuador
Pamela Juliana Aguirre Castro and Pablo Andrés Alarcón Peña

Chapter 7: War and Peace: The Dismemberment of the Salvadoran Constitution as a Means to Achieve the Peace Agreements
Marcos Antonio Vela Ávalos and Manuel Adrián Merino Menjívar

Chapter 8: Through the Looking Glass: Towards of Classification of Constitutional Dismemberments in Mexico
Jaime Olaiz-González and José Mario de la Garza-Martins

Chapter 9: The Debate on Constitutional Change in Peru: A Critical Vision
Heber Joel Campos

Chapter 10: Constitutional Dismemberment in Venezuela: An Authoritarian-Populist Constitutional Change Mechanism
Daniela Urosa and José Ignacio Hernández

Biography

Richard Albert is the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.