Defining the Modern Family The Latvian Constitutional Court, the Definition of “Family”, and Parliamentary Bitterness Engīzers, Kalvis Author aut Melnika, Madara Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-02-02 eng
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 In November 2020, the Constitutional Court of Latvia recognised that the Constitution of Latvia (Satversme) obliges the state to protect all families, including those established by same-sex couples. The judgement was met with considerable political backlash and at the beginning of January prompted the right‑wing party Nacionālā Apvienība to submit an initiative to amend the Satversme with a new, excluding definition of family. Perhaps more worrisome is how the amendment and the associated campaign openly attack the authority of the Constitutional Court. CC BY-SA 4.0 Engīzers, Kalvis funded by the government family Latvian Constitutional Court LGBT Rights 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/defining-the-modern-family/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20210202-235854-0 210202 10.17176/20210202-235854-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)