nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211215-142454-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211214s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211215-142454-0 doi eng 342 23 Tushnet, Mark Author aut Restoring Self-Governance Constitutional Change and the Charge of Illegality Tushnet, Mark Verfassungsblog 2021-12-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Sometimes, probably often, the new anti-authoritarian majority will not be large enough to satisfy the requirements of the nation’s amendment rule for constitutional change. What can be done under those circumstances? One possibility, of course, is simply to push through constitutional change without regard to the pre-existing amendment rule. Sometimes that will be enough. Sometimes it won’t – particularly where the idea of legality has powerful political support. Where simply bulling ahead with constitutional change seems unlikely to be productive, what can be done? The answer, I believe, combines foundational constitutional theory and practical political reality. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Reset Constitutional restoration Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/restoring-self-governance/ raw object