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This book examines the process of dismantling the democratic institutions and protections in Venezuela under the Hugo Chávez regime. The actions of the Chávez government have influenced similar processes and undemocratic manoeuvrings in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Honduras. Since the election of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela in 1998, a sinister form of nationalistic authoritarianism has arisen at the expense of long-established democratic standards. During the past decade, the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution has been systematically attacked by all branches of the Chávez government, particularly by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which has legitimized the Chávez-ordered constitutional violations. The Chávez regime has purposely defrauded the Constitution and severely restricted representative government, all in the name of a supposedly participatory democracy controlled by a popularly supported central government. This volume illustrates how an authoritarian, nondemocratic government has been established in Venezuela.
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this very useful analysis of constitutional law in Venezuela provides essential information on the country’s sources of constitutional law, its form of government, and its administrative structure. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the clarifications of particular terminology and its application. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes the specific points at which constitutional law affects the interpretation of legal rules and procedure. Thorough coverage by a local expert fully describes the political system, the historical background, the role of treaties, legislation, jurisprudence,...
Dois dos temas mais atuais e interessantes do estudo da jurisdição constitucional são abordados na obra que o leitor ora tem em mãos: mutação constitucional via decisões aditivassérie idp. O interesse pelos temas justifica-se, pois sua compreensão ocorreu na medida em que foi consolidado o paradigma pós-positivo do direito, que possibilitou o desenvolvimento de técnicas jurídicas de modificação da constituição por processos informais, especialmente pela interpretação dos tribunais.
Frente a la necesidad de renunciar a la búsqueda de un criterio único y universal que mediante un esfuerzo analítico y conceptual pretenda definir no sólo el Derecho administrativo, sino sus instituciones, se propone seguir una opción metodológica sugerida por un importante sector de la doctrina administrativa alemana, como lo es optar más por dar una descripción de los elementos integrantes del Derecho administrativo, lo cual pasa por buscar respuesta a diversos interrogantes y en esta oportunidad pretendemos dar respuesta al primero: ¿Quién administra? Es decir, quién es el sujeto del Derecho administrativo. Lo que cualifica al Derecho Administrativo contemporáneo en el Derecho...
"El Juez Constitucional, sea que se trate de un Tribunal Constitucional especializado o de la Sala Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de un país, tiene como misión esencial el garantizar la vigencia de la Constitución, y con ello, la vigencia del Estado democrático de derecho; asegurar el derecho del pueblo a ser gobernado por sus representantes electos mediante sufragio; preservar el funcionamiento del Estado bajo el principio de la separación de poderes, y velar porque todos los órganos del Estado acaten la Constitución. Bajo ese ángulo, por tanto, es inconcebible que un Juez Constitucional pueda tener como misión la de demoler el Estado de derecho y, con ello, destruir las bases ...
"All over the world, in all democratic States, independently of having a legal system based on the common law or on the civil law principles, the courts – special constitutional courts, supreme courts or ordinary courts – have the power to decide and declare the unconstitutionality of legislation or of other State acts when a particular statute violates the text of the Constitution or of its constitutional principles. This power of the courts is the consequence of the consolidation in contem-porary constitutionalism of three fundamental principles of law: first, the existence of a written or unwritten constitution or of a fundamental law, conceived as a superior law with clear supremacy ...
I walked through the park. There were hundreds there already. In the coming days those same people began to make the park home. But that day they wandered aimlessly. In shock. The subway was shut down, most of it flooded. The buses parked. You could not find a cab. The same with the cops. Everything that was the same about the city. The things you could depend on to be the same day after day, were gone. A few short days and they were gone. No more. And it had a feeling of permanence to it. A feeling of doom. I sat down on a bench and watched the people shuffle by. No noisy kids. No babies bawling. No Joggers. No dog walkers. Hopeless people shuffling by. The occasional panicked whack job run...
This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays by Jess Huerta de Soto, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions.