2025/07/08 by Pozsár-Szentmiklósy, Zoltán
#Constitution making #constitutional adjudication #constitutional entrenchment #constitutional identity #constitutional reform #democratic values #post-conflict constitution making
paper · doi:10.15781/jeg79r09
Excerpt: Silvia Suteu's illuminating book is well known among scholars who focus their research on constitutional change. Despite the fact that the last decade has seen the publication of many important and influential works in the field of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law analyzing constitution making, constitutional change, constitutional undamendability, and the durability of constitutions in general, until the publication of Silvia Suteu's book, there was no comprehensive work dealing specifically with eternity clauses.... The book is organized around three main themes: eternity clauses in constitution-making, eternity clauses in constitutional adjudication, and eternity clauses in contemporary constitutional reform processes. Following these themes, the author focuses on what she considers to be the most relevant issues in the field, such as the protection of fundamental democratic values against future challenges, post-conflict settlements, the relationship of eternity clauses to constitutional identity and substantive doctrines of unamendability, the international context surrounding constitutional stability, participatory techniques related to constitutional change, and the challenge of abandoning eternity clauses.