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In some States the Constitution provides for an “automatic” pre-term dissolution of the Parliament. Sometimes the de jure dissolution is an element of the procedure to amend the Constitution. The aim of the dissolution is here to permit the electorate to be indirectly involved in the amendment of the Constitution, by electing the representatives in Parliament that will have the power to amend. This type of dissolution exists in Belgium, Iceland, Luxemburg, Montenegro, and the Netherlands and, as far as total revision of the Constitution is concerned, also in Spain and in Switzerland.