ABSTRACT
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is certainly not renowned for making frequent use of direct popular consultations in the fi eld of constitutional change. Its current constitution, dating back to 1868, was amended some 37 times between 1919 and 2009. None of these amendments has ever been submitted to direct popular consent. If one were looking for characteristic elements of the country’s constitutional culture, one would think in particular of ‘constitutional stability’, ‘search for cross-party political consensus’, ‘legal pragmatism’, ‘attachment to monarchy’ and ‘strong commitment to the model of representative democracy’.
