The Global Model of Constitutional Rights by Kai Möller

By Kai Möller

Because the finish of the second one global struggle and the next luck of constitutional judicial evaluate, one specific version of constitutional rights has had amazing luck, first in Europe and now globally. This worldwide version of constitutional rights is characterised via an incredibly wide method of the scope of rights (sometimes known as 'rights inflation'), the recognition of horizontal impact of rights, optimistic tasks, and more and more additionally socio-economic rights, and using the doctrines of balancing and proportionality to figure out the permissible obstacles of rights.

Drawing on analyses of a vast diversity of situations from the united kingdom, the ecu courtroom of Human Rights, Germany, Canada, the USA, and South Africa, this ebook offers the 1st substantial ethical, reconstructive idea of the worldwide version. It indicates that it really is according to a coherent perception of constitutional rights which connects to appealing money owed of judicial evaluation, democracy and the separation of powers.

The first a part of the e-book develops a idea of the scope of rights below the worldwide version. It defends the belief of a basic correct to non-public autonomy: a correct to every little thing which, in keeping with the agent's self-conception, is in his or her curiosity. The functionality of this correct is to recognize that each act by way of a public authority which locations a burden on a person's autonomy calls for justification. the second one a part of the ebook develops a concept of the constitution of this justification which bargains unique and priceless bills of the $64000 doctrines of balancing and proportionality.

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While this model may explain horizontal effect, it would obviously still be unable to account for positive rights. However, it fails also for another reason, namely its lack of moral appeal compared to an autonomy-based approach. The problem is what exactly the value protected by ‘freedom from everyone’ is supposed to be. In the case of negative 10 Retail, Wholesale & Dep’t Store Union v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. (1986) 2 SCR 573, 605. Negative and Positive Freedom b 33 freedom as limited government, the value at stake must flow from the idea that government is the greatest threat to freedom and that its power should therefore be limited.

Thus, the principle of proportionality, properly applied, guides judges through the reasoning process as to whether a policy is constitutionally legitimate. part i THE SCOPE OF RIGHTS This page intentionally left blank B2b Negative and Positive Freedom The starting point of the reconstructive enterprise undertaken by this book is to ask whether it is possible to identify in the practice of constitutional rights law a value or a set of values protected by (prima facie) rights. The main candidates which come to mind are liberty, or freedom (I will use the two synonymously1), in their positive and negative dimensions.

Rather, we are confident to conclude that an interference has occurred without engaging in such considerations. Similarly, even a minor interference with the property of a very rich person will be regarded as an interference with that person’s property right, independently of whether it affects the person’s ability to pursue her projects. The correct approach is that personal resources are not preconditions but elements of autonomy. Personal autonomy, properly understood, is not only about actions.

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