Legislatures and the Quest for a Constitution: The Case of Israel

Gavison, Ruth E.

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Legislatures and the Quest for a Constitution: The Case of Israel

11:2 Review of Constitutional Studies, 345-400 (2006)

57 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2011 Last revised: 31 Mar 2016

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Ruth E. Gavison

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

Date Written: 2003

Abstract

Israel is a country where constitutional debates center not on the questions whether it should have a constitution and what should be in it but on whether it has one. This undesirable and anomalous situation results from the fact that constitutional reality in Israel has been the result of a long process characterized in recent decades by legislative ambivalence and by a resolute constitution-making drive by the judiciary.

Keywords: constitution making, Israel

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Gavison, Ruth E., Legislatures and the Quest for a Constitution: The Case of Israel (2003). 11:2 Review of Constitutional Studies, 345-400 (2006), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1860384