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Constitutional court!
Sep. 28th, 2009 07:51 pmQatar got a Constitutional Court yesterday!!!
This is tremendously exciting. Qatar has had a constitution for five years now, but there has not heretofore been any mechanism for determining whether (preexisting or new) laws are constitutional and changing them if they're not. As you can imagine, that has made the existence of a constitution somewhat academic. Now, though, there will be a way to change the laws that violate the principles of the constitution!
Hooray for judicial review!
This is tremendously exciting. Qatar has had a constitution for five years now, but there has not heretofore been any mechanism for determining whether (preexisting or new) laws are constitutional and changing them if they're not. As you can imagine, that has made the existence of a constitution somewhat academic. Now, though, there will be a way to change the laws that violate the principles of the constitution!
Hooray for judicial review!
To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?
-Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury v. Madison.
