Peace agreements concluded after internal armed conflicts often stipulate radical constitutional change. When this is envisioned to take place within an existing constitution, it creates normativity clashes between the constitution and the peace agreement by circumventing constitutional amendment procedures or conflicting with the unamendable constitutional principles. This paper sets out the manifestations of such clashes...
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Unamendability for Constitutionality
Constitutional unamendability has recently found justifications that show reverence to constituent power. Such justifications ascribe natural unamendability to the fundamental principles based on democratic founding. These accounts overlook the point of having a constitution and the values that make up constitutionality. In grounding unamendability, they wrongly take constituent power instead of constitutionality as their point...