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Constitutional Design

How states allocate and limit public power

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Edition
2026 Edition
Extent
520 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-0000-401-4

About this book

A comparative study of how written constitutions distribute authority between branches and levels of government, why some rights guarantees prove enforceable and others do not, and what the amendment threshold reveals about a system's stability.

What is inside

  • Every proposition cited to primary law
  • Checklists and tables designed for working use
  • Cross-references into the LawLegiance country portals

Table of contents

3 parts · 4 chapters

Part I

  1. 01Framing the problem
  2. 02The comparative method used

Part II

  1. 01Substantive chapters

Part III

  1. 01Tables, checklists and source index

Who this is for

  • Practitioners
  • Advisers
  • Serious general readers

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