@article{2015:ley:die_wahl_v,
title = {Die Wahl von Ministerpräsidenten ohne Landtagsmandat. Fallbeispiele und Überlegungen zur geplanten Verfassungsänderung in NRW},
year = {2015},
note = {Although it has apparently not led to any problems in North
Rhine-Westphalia that prime ministerial candidates must be elected
members of parliament its state parliament has been discussing the
possibility of deleting that constitutional provision . This is
plausible since future problematic situations need to be considered by
constitutional law . Documented cases of other German states prove
that it might be in the North Rhine-Westphalian parlia- ment‘s
interest to delete the present restriction, thereby enlarging the
circle of possible prime ministerial candidates . This consideration
becomes even more obvious if it is kept in mind that a constitution
should allow for a maximum of political scope to ensure the po-
litical flexibility needed . This is especially true if such
restrictions do not represent funda- mental constitutional rationales
such as the constitutional state and / or democracy . [ZParl, vol .
46, no . 1, pp . 100 - 116]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {100--116},
author = {Ley, Richard},
volume = {46},
number = {1}
}