Unconstitutional Reforms of Constitution

An Exercise in Conceptual Clarification

Abstract

This paper proposes a stipulative definition of the concept of “unconstitutional constitutional amendments”, identifying its conceptual presuppositions. To this end, the objects and types of discourse found in the relevant literature are distinguished (§2); the proposed definition is developed by identifying three conceptual presuppositions (§3); and some open problems entailed by the definition are pointed out (§4).