Comparing Constitutions

by Finer, S. E.; Bogdanor, Vernon; Rudden, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780198763444
• ISBN10: 0198763441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-27
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

A political scientist and a comparative lawyer have joined forces to produce a revised and expanded version of the late S.E. Finer's classic Five Constitutions. Their book gives the present texts of four important constitutions, the American, German, French, and Russian. It adds the basicpolitical structure of the European Union, and provides a full account of the British constitution in the terms revealed by examination of the other texts. A general chapter on comparing constitutions is complemented by careful analytical and alphabetical indexes.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Note to 1998 Reprint	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
On Whether Constitutions Matter	p. 1
On the Variety Among Constitutions	p. 6
On the Constitution of the United Kingdom	p. 40
The Constitution of the United States of America 1787	p. 102
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of 23 May 1949	p. 127
France: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789	p. 208
Preamble to the Constitution of the Fourth French Republic 1946	p. 211
Constitution of the Fifth French Republic of 4 October 1958	p. 213
Constitution of the Russian Federation	p. 245
European Convention on Human Rights of 4 November 1950 [extracts]	p. 296
European Community, European Union	p. 304
Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community as Amended by Subsequent Treaties. Rome, 25 March, 1957 [extracts]	p. 305
Treaty on European Union Maastricht, 7 February 1992	p. 352
Note on the Presentation of the Indexes	p. 370
Analytical Index	p. 372
Alphabetical Index	p. 386
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