In many constitutions, constitutional duties appear alongside constitutional rights. However, the history of constitutional duties, unlike the history of constitutional rights, is a neglected topic. This article is a case study of the history of constitutional duties in Israel. The article documents the appearance of duties in Israeli constitutional texts and debates in the 1950s and shows that the interest in duties was connected to the view that a major role of constitutions was to serve as educational, rather than legal, texts. The article then analyzes the decline of the duties discourse in Israel, pointing to the 1960s as the watershed decade in which duties disappeared. Finally, the article discusses a number of possible factors that led to the waning of the notion of constitutional duties, focusing specifically on the juridification of Israeli society. Fluctuations in interest in constitutional duties, the article concludes, are connected to changing understandings of the nature of constitutions, and, more broadly, to shifts in the relative importance of law and lawyers in society.

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以色列宪法义务的兴衰

在许多宪法中，宪法义务与宪法权利一起出现。然而，与宪法权利的历史不同，宪法义务的历史是一个被忽视的话题。本文是对以色列宪法义务历史的案例研究。这篇文章记录了 1950 年代以色列宪法文本和辩论中义务的出现，并表明对义务的兴趣与宪法的主要作用是作为教育文本而不是法律文本的观点有关。然后，文章分析了以色列关税话语的衰落，指出 1960 年代是关税消失的分水岭十年。最后，本文讨论了导致宪法义务概念减弱的一些可能因素，特别关注以色列社会的司法化。文章总结说，对宪法义务的兴趣波动与对宪法性质的理解不断变化有关，更广泛地说，与法律和律师在社会中的相对重要性的变化有关。