Théodore Holo - The Emergence of Constitutional Justice

Pouvoirs n°129 - avril 2009 - La démocratie en Afrique - p.101-114

Constitutional justice is an integral part of constitutionalism, a system whose purpose is to supervise the power of the government and to protect the liberty of the governed. In Benin, such a mission is fully assumed by the constitutional judge, since the Constitution grants him that competence but, more importantly, since every citizen has the right to appeal to him either directly or because of the potential anti-constitutionality of any law, administrative decree, court ruling, or any attitude that is detrimental to fundamental rights. Résumé

Référence électonique : Théodore Holo, "The Emergence of Constitutional Justice", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°129, 2009, . Consulté le 02-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/The-Emergence-of-Constitutional.html