nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210914-173356-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210914s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210914-173356-0 doi eng 342 23 Drugda, Šimon Author aut The People v Their Representatives - The Slovak Constitutional Court Blocks Referendum on Early Election Drugda, Šimon Verfassungsblog 2021-09-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On July 7, 2021, the Slovak Constitutional Court found a referendum initiative on a snap election unconstitutional. The case presented the Court with an unresolved question, whether the people can remove their elected representatives from office ahead of time. The Court’s answer was a qualified no. When people resort to direct democracy tools, the Court found, they are not only bound by explicit subject-matter restrictions on the use of referenda but also implicit norms under the doctrine of the material core. The people have a great power to make or unmake constitutional law but cannot breach it in an irregular use of a referendum. CC BY-SA 4.0 Election law Referendum Slovakian Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-people-v-their-representatives/ raw object