Constitutional Amendments Versus Constitutional Replacements: An Empirical Perspective

David S. Law; ;

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Constitutional Amendments Versus Constitutional Replacements: An Empirical Perspective

David S. Law

CO-AUTHORS Ryan Whalen

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Routledge

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2020

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

David S. Law

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David S. Law & Ryan Whalen, Constitutional Amendments Versus Constitutional Replacements: An Empirical Perspective, in Xenophon Contiades & Alkmene Fotiadou Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change, Routledge, 74–100 (2020).

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