03317cam a2200385Ii 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036040004200077020001800119020001500137035002200152082001800174100002600192245010900218264009000327300002900417336002600446337002800472338002700500504005100527505063400578520124101212650003802453650004002491650002802531650002002559650005002579650004602629650005402675650005202729651004402781710007102825710003502896on1128059254OCoLC20200305113029.0191120s2019    sa       b    001 0 eng d  aZ@LbengerdacZ@LdZ@LdOCLCFdZAAPA  a9781928480266  a1928480268  a(OCoLC)112805925404a342.680232231 aMalan, Koos,eauthor.10aThere is no supreme constitution :ba critique of statist individualist constitutionalism /cKoos Malan. 1a[Stellenbosch, South Africa] :bAfrican Sun Media under the Sun Press imprint,c2019.  axiii, 309 pages ; 25ccm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 a1. Constitutionalism -- 2. Statist-individualist constitutionalism -- 3. Statist-individualist constitutionalism in post 1994 South Africa -- 4. There is no supreme constitution -- 5. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is not supreme and its rights not entrenched - The changing South African constitution -- 6. The unity of power and the dependence and partiality of the judiciary -- 7. Constitutional supremacy and judicial impartiality hermeneutically viewed - The fiction of guaranteed rights -- 8. Universal individual rights -- 9. Beyond statist-constitutionalism - Pointers to politocratic constitutionalism.  aNone of the articles of faith of the South African Constitution is plausible. The Constitution is not supreme and entrenched. Vulnerable to potent socio-political forces it changes continuously and often profoundly regardless of stringent amendment requirements. The trite threefold separation of powers is more metaphorical than real and therefore unable to secure effective checks and balances. Though institutionally separated with their own personnel and functions, the three powers are ordinarily integrated in a single dominant political leadership, committed to achieving the same ideological goals. The bill of individual rights cannot guarantee justice, because rights are subject to the ideologically-driven exercise of judicial interpretation, often with damaging consequences for those relying on the bill of rights. This situation does not only apply to South Africa, but to all Constitutions premised on the same articles of faith, in this book described as the doctrine of statist-individualist constitutionalism. An improved mode of constitutionalism is called for - one which is equipped with a sounder system of checks and balances and better endowed towards the achievement of justice through a balanced constitution. 0aConstitutional lawzSouth Africa. 0aSeparation of powerszSouth Africa. 0aLawxPolitical aspects. 0aJudicial power. 7aConstitutional law.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00875797 7aJudicial power.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00984696 7aLawxPolitical aspects.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00993795 7aSeparation of powers.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01112740 7aSouth Africa.2fast0(OCoLC)fst012046161 aSouth Africa.tConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.1 aSouth Africa.tBill of Rights.