Author: BelgiumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: BelgiumThe Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: BelgiumPublisher:
ISBN: 9789033424700
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978489219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Constitution of Belgium dates back to 1831. Since then Belgium has been a parliamentary monarchy that applies the principles of ministerial responsibility for the government policy and the Trias Politica. The Constitution established Belgium as a centralised unitary state. However, since 1970, through successive state reforms, Belgium has gradually evolved into a federal state. The last radical change of the constitution was carried out in 1993 after which it was published in a renewed version in the Belgian Official Journal. One of the most important changes was the introduction of the Court of Arbitration whose competencies were expanded by a special law of 2003, to include Title II (Articles 8 to 32), and the Articles 170, 172 and 191 of the Constitution. The Court therefore developed into a constitutional court and in May 2007 it was formally redesignated Constitutional Court. This court has the authority to examine whether a law or a decree is in compliance with Title II and Articles 170, 172 and 191.
Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: BelgiqueThe Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: BelgiumPublisher:
ISBN: 9789033431081
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: The Constitution of the Kingdom of Belgium
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789033445613
Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The Constitution of Belgium
Author: Patricia PopelierPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782259457
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Belgian Constitution, once described as a model of consensus democracy, has now become an enigma in comparative federalism. On the one hand, it demonstrates features which suggest institutional instability as well as elements that enhance the probability of secession. On the other hand, Belgium continues to exist as a federal system, based upon linguistic bipolarity. This linguistic bipolarity dominates Belgian politics and has shaped the design of Belgium's institutions as well as the Constitution's fundamental organising principles: concepts of federalism, democracy, separation of powers, constitutionalism and the rule of law. In this book, the institutional structure and the principles governing the Belgian constitutional system are explained in the light of its historical, demographic and political context. Linguistic bipolarity and its historical evolution explain the establishment of the Belgian State structure as a dual federalism, with exclusive powers, instruments for consensus making and obstruction, and elements of confederal decision making. It also explains the evolution in the concept of principles of democracy and the rule of law. Besides describing the devolutionary process, the book also incorporates two other elements that have shaped the Belgian constitutional landscape: fundamental rights and Europeanisation.
Constitutional Documents of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands 1789–1848
Author: Fred StevensPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598440774
Category : History
Languages : un
Pages : 682
Book Description
The seventh Europe volume of Constitutions of the World covers Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; a central European region in which constitutional echoes of the revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848, the restoration following the Congress of Vienna and the national independence movements can be found. The scope of the edited source material reaches from the 1789 "Liège declaration on human rights" and the "Declaratie van de Rechten van de Mens en Burger van Holland" from 1795 to the constitutional documents of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815– 1830/39) and the Kingdom of Belgium, founded in 1831, and to the "Verfassung des Großherzogtums Luxemburg" (Constitution of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) from 1848.