Comparative Constitutional Law Documents contains a selection of constitutions and fundamental legislative instruments from five Western democracies: the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it provides the text of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the Treaty on European Union, and selected provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The documents reproduced in this book are rendered either in the original authentic, English, or in new translation under critical editorship.

Comparative Constitutional Law Documents allows students and interested readers to understand the peculiarities and similarities of different Western constitutional systems in a direct comparison.

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Inhoudsopgave:

United States
Constitution of the United States of America of 17 September 1787

France
Declaration of 1789
Preamble of 1946
Constitution
Electoral Code

Germany
Basic Law
Federal Elections Act

The Netherlands
Charter for the Kingdom
The Netherlands: Constitution
The Netherlands: Elections Act

United Kingdom
Bill of Rights 1689
Parliament Act 1911/1949
Human Rights Act 1998
Constitutional Reform Act 2005
Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010
Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
Scotland Act 1998
Northern Ireland Act 1998
Government of Wales Act 2006
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

United States
Constitution and Amendments
Council of Europe
European European Convention on Human Rights (Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms)
Protocol 16 to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

EU
Treaty on European Union (2007)
Selected provision of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
Protocol (No 1) on the role of National Parliaments in the European Union
Protocol (No 2) on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality
Charter of Fundamental Rights of The European Union