Constitutional Import: Concept and Basic Considerations
Keywords:
Constitutional Import, Comparative Constitutional Law, MutationAbstract
"Constitutional import" is a common phenomenon almost all over the world when a constitution is drafted, amended, or interpreted. Learning from others is a good source of knowledge and inspiration for the development of a country's political system. Nowadays, the “global constitutional market” is filled with a variety of models and references that countries wishing to improve their constitutional systems can choose to borrow to solve their problems. However, constitutional import is a complex process with many obstacles and limits. These include the need to thoroughly understand the information and knowledge related to borrowed constitutional ideas or institutions, the clash between the imported material and the legal cultural context of the host state, and the risk of unwanted side effects causing the adopted constitutional law to mutate. Its actors must therefore be careful and try to find the best balance between the traditional legal context and the newly imported constitutional norms or institutions.
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