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Additional Literature and Materials

 Documents from the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission)

  1. Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution – Rules for Parliamentary Procedure, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)002add2 
  2. Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution – Limits to Constitutional Amendments, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)002add 
  3. Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution – The Need for Referendums / Possibilities of Adopting an Entirely New Constitution instead of Amending it / The Role of Constitutional Courts in Amending the Constitution, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)002add3 
  4. Draft Vademecum of Venice Commission Opinions on the Reports Concerning Constitutional Provisions for Amending the Constitution, Study no. 469 / 2008, CDL-DEM(2008)001

Literature 

  1. P. Suber, Amendment, In: Christopher B. Gray (ed.), Philosophy of Law:  An Encyclopedia, Garland Pub. Co, 1999, I.31-32 (at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/amdt.htm)
  2. D. Grimm, Ist das Verfahren der Verfassungsänderung selbst änderungsbeduerftig?In: Humboldt Forum Recht 20/2007, p.213-221 (at http://www.humboldt-forum-recht.de/media/Druckansicht/pdf/2007-20.pdf)
  3. A. Twomey, The involvement of sub-national entities in direct and indirect constitutional amendment within federations, (http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/statecon/workshop11greece07/workshop11/Twomey.pdf)
  4. D. S. Lutz, Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment. In American Political Science Review 88 (1994), pp. 355-370