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  • 16 - The Birth of Dialogical Constitutionalism

  • Roberto Gargarella, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Book:
    The Law As a Conversation among Equals
    Published online:
    25 April 2022
    Print publication:
    21 April 2022, pp 246-257

  • Summary

    In this chapter, I examine what I take to be the most interesting recent development in constitutionalism, namely the emergence of “dialogic constitutionalism” -a practice that seems to be in line with the regulatory ideal defended in the book as a “conversation between equals.” The starting point of the chapter is the idea is that the system of ”checks and balances” pits the branches of government against each other, and that, in recent years, alternative practices began to develop that, in one way or another, “lubricate” the gears linking the different branches of government and favoring a more cooperative attitude between them. I exemplify these changes from two cases, one “judicial” and the other “political.” As an example of the first, I refer to the well-known decision by the new Constitutional Court of South Africa: Grootboom. As an example of the second, I refer to the now famous “nevertheless clause,” a political reform adopted in Canada. These cases allow me to describe in greater specificity what a “dialogical” approach to constitutionalism imply.