The Negotiable Constitution
On the Limitation of Rights
Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-11123-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-11123-2 (ISBN)
Grégoire C. N. Webber examines how abstract guarantees in bills of rights can be related to controversies of specific rights-claims, arguing that, by leaving rights open-ended, a constitution leaves to the legislature the responsibility to complete the rights-project. The argument will interest researchers and students in human rights and constitutional theory.
In matters of rights, constitutions tend to avoid settling controversies. With few exceptions, rights are formulated in open-ended language, seeking consensus on an abstraction without purporting to resolve the many moral-political questions implicated by rights. The resulting view has been that rights extend everywhere but are everywhere infringed by legislation seeking to resolve the very moral-political questions the constitution seeks to avoid. The Negotiable Constitution challenges this view. Arguing that underspecified rights call for greater specification, Grégoire C. N. Webber draws on limitation clauses common to most bills of rights to develop a new understanding of the relationship between rights and legislation. The legislature is situated as a key constitutional actor tasked with completing the specification of constitutional rights. In turn, because the constitutional project is incomplete with regards to rights, it is open to being re-negotiated by legislation struggling with the very moral-political questions left underdetermined at the constitutional level.
In matters of rights, constitutions tend to avoid settling controversies. With few exceptions, rights are formulated in open-ended language, seeking consensus on an abstraction without purporting to resolve the many moral-political questions implicated by rights. The resulting view has been that rights extend everywhere but are everywhere infringed by legislation seeking to resolve the very moral-political questions the constitution seeks to avoid. The Negotiable Constitution challenges this view. Arguing that underspecified rights call for greater specification, Grégoire C. N. Webber draws on limitation clauses common to most bills of rights to develop a new understanding of the relationship between rights and legislation. The legislature is situated as a key constitutional actor tasked with completing the specification of constitutional rights. In turn, because the constitutional project is incomplete with regards to rights, it is open to being re-negotiated by legislation struggling with the very moral-political questions left underdetermined at the constitutional level.
Gregoire C. N. Webber is Associate Fellow at McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. He was previously law clerk to the Honourable Justice W. Ian C. Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Introduction: on the limitation of rights; 1. The constitution as activity; 2. The received approach to the limitation of rights; 3. Challenging the age of balancing; 4. Constituting rights by limitation; 5. The democratic activity of limiting rights; 6. Justifying rights in a free and democratic society; 7. Conclusion.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.11.2009 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-11123-4 / 0521111234 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-11123-2 / 9780521111232 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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