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Amendment Process

Amendment Process is a formal legislative procedure whereby a proposed change to a legal text, most commonly a constitution or statute, is debated, modified, and subject to adoption through established institutional rules that distinguish it from ordinary lawmaking.

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2017–2026

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Amendment ProcessesLegislative Amendment Process

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Publications

113

Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment

Donald S. Lutz · American Political Science Review · 1994 · 392 citations

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Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions

Eoin Carolan · International Journal of Constitutional Law · 2020 · 165 citations

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Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty

Tom Ginsburg, James Melton · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2014 · 125 citations · Full text

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Do Constitutional Amendments Matter?

David A. Strauss · SSRN Electronic Journal · 1999 · 123 citations · Full text

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The Irrelevance of Constitutional Amendments

David A. Strauss · Harvard Law Review · 2001 · 123 citations

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Authors

119

  1. RB
    Raoul Berger

    University of Chicago, United States

    4 publications · 194 citations

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  2. RA
    Richard Albert

    University of Colorado Denver, United States

    3 publications · 77 citations

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  3. BS
    Bruno S. Frey

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    3 publications · 103 citations

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  4. RD
    Rosalind Dixon

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    3 publications · 87 citations

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  5. VB
    Virginia Barbour

    Ottawa Hospital, Canada

    2 publications · 50 citations

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Institutions

59

  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    454 citations

  2. Chicago Kent College of Law

    Chicago, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    387 citations

  3. Boston College

    Boston, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    77 citations

  4. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    52 citations

  5. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

  6. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    108 citations

  7. University of Basel

    Basel, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    152 citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    49 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 11 publications · 443 citations

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  2. American Political Science Review

    6 publications · 499 citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 5 publications · 205 citations

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  4. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 4 publications · 200 citations

    4

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  5. Harvard Law Review

    4 publications · 262 citations

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