Answer by CptEric for Can a law protect itself?
KINDA You can make it hard enough to renew it that nobody will ever be able to. Something silly like the spanish constitution, 75% of congress, 75% of senate, +55% on a national referendum, again 75%...
View ArticleAnswer by onurcanbektas for Can a law protect itself?
If you look at Turkey's constitution, it more or less looks like this; 1-) The republic of Turkey is blah blah 2-) The previous law cannot be changed.
View ArticleAnswer by Roshan Kumar for Can a law protect itself?
No but YES I said no because in India Constitution can be amended and said yes because if that amendment destroys basic structure of Constitution then there is a law or provision to stop that. Give you...
View ArticleAnswer by Scott Schlechtleitner for Can a law protect itself?
The modern idea of law will never openly write preservatives into its code because it believes it is open to improvement. Instead it's held back by becoming complicated and relying on overly technical...
View ArticleAnswer by Elros for Can a law protect itself?
This may be better served as a comment, but I don't have the rep yet. In a truly global sense, the answer is clearly "NO". Any government who's authority is behind the law can be over-turned and the...
View ArticleAnswer by David Richerby for Can a law protect itself?
No. Any law, including constitutions, can be changed if enough people want it to change. As a simple, though unlikely, example, consider a law that literally everybody in a country wants to change from...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim Lymington for Can a law protect itself?
There's a logical fallacy in what you are suggesting; if the law passed on 19th Soptember 2017 can be annulled by a constitutional court or repealed by a future Parliament (to use the British terms),...
View ArticleAnswer by Jirka Hanika for Can a law protect itself?
Law is adopted through a procedure defined in a (written or, in case of the UK, unwritten) constitution. Adopted and also modifiable, later law takes precedence. Can some constitutional rules protect...
View ArticleAnswer by Stilez for Can a law protect itself?
Ultimately, a law is nothing more or less than a kind of rule agreed by a set of people. It might be agreed by some and enforced by others, there may be an informal agreement on how such rules may be...
View ArticleAnswer by lukeg for Can a law protect itself?
More general answer. Yes, it can. There are provisions, usually encountered in basic laws, that those, under any circumstances, cannot be repelled. See, for example, this passage from the German...
View ArticleAnswer by Sty for Can a law protect itself?
You might want to look at eternity clauses, which may not be used in the UK, but feature prominently especially in the German Grundgesetz. An eternity clause in the constitution or basic law of a...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Hardy for Can a law protect itself?
The Constitution of the United States provides for amendments to the Constitution by a process requiring ratifications by three-fourths of the states, but also says no amendment can deprive any state...
View ArticleAnswer by Dale M for Can a law protect itself?
No Parliament is sovereign: Parliamentary sovereignty is a principle of the UK constitution. It makes Parliament the supreme legal authority in the UK, which can create or end any law. Generally, the...
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Can a law protect itself? For example, could it be written in to a law that, under no circumstances, it should be amended or abolished (a) for a fixed duration or (b) indefinitely? I am most...
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