RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?

There appears to be a widespread assumption among those who defend balancing in constitutional rights that it is incompatible with the idea of rights as trumps, because public interests and constitutional rights are to be balanced without any type of pre-fixed priority or lexical ordering. My purpos...

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Main Author: João Costa Neto
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Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito
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description There appears to be a widespread assumption among those who defend balancing in constitutional rights that it is incompatible with the idea of rights as trumps, because public interests and constitutional rights are to be balanced without any type of pre-fixed priority or lexical ordering. My purpose in this article is to show that both trumping and balancing are not only compatible, but possibly complementary. What i will argue is that it is not only possible to have a workable arrangement of constitutional rights that incorporates both trumping and balancing, but it is also better and more plausible if we have one.
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RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?
Revista Direito GV
Trunfos
sopesamento
direitos fundamentais
prioridade lexical
title RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?
title_full RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?
title_fullStr RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?
title_full_unstemmed RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?
title_short RIGHTS AS TRUMPS AND BALANCING: RECONCILING THE RRECONCILABLE?
title_sort rights as trumps and balancing reconciling the rreconcilable
topic Trunfos
sopesamento
direitos fundamentais
prioridade lexical
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