This is a rigid constitution can only be amended through a particular process.

Being a rigid constitution, it has a three-tier entrenchment basis in order for any amendments to take place.

Rigid constitutions cannot be modified in their express terms, except through such processes the constitution itself ordain.

This is a rigid constitution.

The United States Constitution is a "rigid constitution".

This meant that despite the adoption of a new, more rigid constitution in 1937, constitutional review did not become a significant feature of Irish jurisprudence until the 1960s.

In the countries that have written and rigid constitutions, they (the constitutions) represent the supreme norm of the juridical order, sited on the top of the pyramid of norms.

The second dimension used three variables: whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed; whether the legislature has one or two (strong) chambers; and whether there is an unwritten or a written, rigid constitution.

In contrast to majoritarian democracies, consensus democracies have multiparty systems, parliamentarism with oversized (and therefore inclusive) cabinet coalitions, proportional electoral systems, corporatist (hierarchical) interest group structures, federal structures, bicameralism, rigid constitutions protected by judicial review, and independent central banks.