Rules and procedures for amending the UAE Constitution (a comparative study)

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

Abstract

The aim of this research is to clarify the difficult rules in amending the constitution, and to identify the competent authority to amend the constitutional rules, in addition to highlighting the legal value of the texts that prohibit amending the constitution, and to review the stages of constitutional amendment in the UAE and comparative constitutional system. During the comparison between the constitutional systems related to the power to amend constitutional rules and procedures in both the constitutional system of the United Arab Emirates and the comparative constitutional systems. The research reached several results, the most important of which is that the wisdom of the existence of amendment procedures in the texts of constitutions is evident from the fact that the constitution does not only organize the state alone as an institution, but also organizes society as a basis upon which the state is based on its service and ensuring its regular and steady progress, and the constitutional system on which the state is based. Likewise, society must keep pace with the laws of continuous development, and it is the possibility of amending constitutions that allows this system to keep pace with this development, and it was recommended that constitutional amendment procedures should not be initiated except after a broad and in-depth discussion by all segments of society in all its institutions and organizations, i.e. it is not limited A specific number of individuals, and the people must be given the opportunity to express their opinion before making the amendment, and the matter must be published to the people for a sufficient period to be convinced of the amendment.

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