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Constitutional Rights and Legal System


Robert Alexy

The role of constitutional rights in a legal system depends on: (1) their binding force, (2) their

institutionalizatton, (3) their content, and (a) their suctr:re.

I. Two Constructions

l.

Rule constnrction:

narow and strict

2. Principle consrrction: broad and comprehensive 3. Lth (1958); rule construction: two isolated subsumptions; principle construction: balanc-

ing

4.

Three ideas: (1) values or principles, (2) ubiquity, (3) balancing

IL Two Objections

1.

Too little: (1) subjectivity, (2) deprivation of normative force (Habermas, Schlink)

2.

Too much:

(l)

overconstitutionalization, constitution as juridical genome, (2) constitu-

tional adjudicarive state (Forsthoff, Bckenfrrde)

IIL

The Law of Balancing

1.

Principle of proportionality:
rower sense

(l) suitability, (2) necessity, (3) proportionality

in the nar-

2" Law of Balancing: The greater the degree of non-satisfactiori

of, or detriment to, one right

or principle, the greater must be the importance of satisffing the other.

3.

Three stages of balancing: (1) degree tance of satisffing Pi, (3)

of non-satisfaction of, or detriment to, P; (2) impor-

comparison

4. )ossibility of rational judgements atstages (l), (2), and (3)

5. 6.

Two examples:

(l)

Tobacco, (2) Titanic: light (l), moderate (m), serious (s)

Diminishing marginal utility

F.

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