Hans Kelsen’s Conception of Constitutional Court
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Jun 28, 2021
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Hans Kelsen constitutional thought constitutional court constitutional justice constitutional review
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This article aims to demonstrate the contribution of Kelsen’s constitutional thought in contemporary system of constitutional justice. Kelsen’s contribution to European model of constitutional review begins with the influence of his thought on the Austrian Constitution of 1920, which he designed the Austrian model of the judicial review of legislation. The important aspect of Kelsen’s constitutional thought is the conception of the state as a hierarchical ordering of legal norms, the interrelation between the superior and the inferior norm, the determination of the content of general legal norms by the constitution, and the guarantee of the constitution. It is argued that Kelsen’s conception of the constitutional justice shaped the European model of constitutional adjudication, which nowadays diffused throughout the world.
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ไชยชิต ช. (2021). Hans Kelsen’s Conception of Constitutional Court. Political Science Review, 7(1), 1–54. retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/RatthasatNithet/article/view/222862
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Morrison, Wayne. Jurisprudence: From the Greeks to Post-Modernism. London: Cavendish, 1997.
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