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Europe’s electoral heritage

Council of Europe - Venice Commission
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Council of Europe - Venice Commission
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electoral heritage
electoral law
principles
rights
vote
election
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Global ethics
Political ethics
Ethics of law
Rights based legal ethics
Community ethics
Lifestyle ethics
Minority ethics
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Elections and Ethics
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For over ten years, the European Commission for Democracy through Law, or Venice Commission, has been playing a key role in the often spectacular constitutional changes which have taken place in Europe. Adopting a comparative approach, it helps to shape the various aspects of Europe’s constitutional heritage. Dynamism is the hallmark of all the Commission’s work. Europe’s constitutional heritage is not fixed and immutable, but is – like democracy itself - developing and expanding all the time. It is built on international standards, but also on values which, being shoved across Europe, are expressed transnationally (“trans-constitutionalism”). The Commission’s aim in advising countries and helping them to consolidate their democratic systems is to apply Europe’s constitutional heritage as part of their constitutions and laws, which then feed into that heritage themselves.
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2002-03-14
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