A brief comparison of legal and political constitutionality
The development of politicization, institutional and individual aspects
Keywords:
juristocracy, democratic legitimacy, negative legislator, constitutinal adjudication
Abstract
The emerging constitutional court set an obstacle to the policy-making of democracy, and at the same time pushed the political system towards duplication, building the power mechanisms of juristocracy alongside democracy. The basic idea of the need to establish a constitutional court led to the recognition that the provision of cassation power also means interference in democratic processes. The study undertakes a short, sketchy presentation from the role of the ’Das Gericht als negativer Gesetzgeber’ to the intervention close to the positive situation (or from Kelsen to Rawls as preferred).
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