Abstract

PATINO CAMARENA, Javier. Mandatory budgets to procure the complementarity of representative democratic institutions with the referendum on constitutional reform processes. Cuest. Const. [online]. 2011, n.25, pp.129-150. ISSN 1405-9193.

If the Constitution, besides being the supreme law of positive law is the law that outlines the political face of the nation, the law creating the State, the law that organizes the government and in which citizens have defined the terms attachment of the social contract which have chosen to live in society, if the constitution has this rich and varied meaning, what are the minimum essential budgets to be observed in any process of reforms to the Constitution? If you own characteristic of a democratic state of law is that the powers that may in no case to reform the constitution that creates and regulates, what are the minimum budget required to avoid this danger?

Keywords : Constitution; constitutional amendment; referendum.