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The Constitutional Value of Sunset Clauses: An Historical and Normative Analysis

Antonios E. Kouroutakis · Routledge · 2017

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Book
Author
Antonios E. Kouroutakis
Identifier
DOI 10.4324/9781315454337
Accessed
2026-09-01

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EstablishedSection 224 of the USA PATRIOT Act set many of its surveillance provisions to cease to have effect on 31 December 2005; Congress extended the business-records (section 215) and roving-wiretap provisions several times until they expired on 15 March 2020, subject to grandfather clauses.EstablishedScholars treat sunset clauses and experimental legislation as ways to test rules for a set period and on a small scale, and note that although sunsets are now associated mainly with emergency laws passed after terrorist attacks, they date back to the first English parliaments and affect the separation of powers and the rule of law.