Vilhena Vieira, Oscar --- "Ambitious constitutions: prominent courts" [2017] ELECD 911; in Dixon, Rosalind; Ginsburg, Tom (eds), "Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 253

Book Title: Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America

Editor(s): Dixon, Rosalind; Ginsburg, Tom

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785369209

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Ambitious constitutions: prominent courts

Author(s): Vilhena Vieira, Oscar

Number of pages: 23

Abstract/Description:

The Brazilian and Colombian ambitious Constitutions resulted from reactive and inclusive constitutional moments, in a social context of profound inequality and political distrust. Their apex courts received ample powers to protect these aspirational pacts. This chapter analyses the role of these courts in the incremental implementation of constitutional promises, and especially their contribution to making these constitutional systems more resilient in the last decades. Keywords: Ambitious constitutionalism, Constitutional resilience, Supremocracy, Incremental development, Unconstitutional amendments