RESOUR> [NetGold] LAW: CONSTITUTIONAL: Constitutions of the World

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:31:50 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] LAW: CONSTITUTIONAL: Constitutions of the World

This message contains links to the full text of constitutions for the
countries of the world that possess such a document.  Before listing those
websites, however, I thought that it might be instructive to highlight
several discussions that as part of their deliberations consider the
importance of constitutional law.

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"This splendid book illuminates the pragmatic and practical side of
Marshall's jurisprudence, helping us to understand how this greatest of
all American judges separated law from politics without ever losing sight
of the importance of constitutional law and jurisprudence for the world of
politics."
<http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/hobgre.html>
The Great Chief Justice
John Marshall and the Rule of Law
Charles F. Hobson
xvi, 256 pages, 6 x 9
American Political Thought
Paper ISBN 0-7006-1031-6, $15.95

Expanding the Scope of American Constitutional History
<http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~law/teaching_legal_history/benedict.htm>

We must discuss events that shape popular constitutionalism even if they
did not decide legal doctrine--for example, the Alton riot and the murder
of Elijah Lovejoy; Margaret Sanger, contraception, and the Comstock laws;
the Scopes Trial, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Sacco-Vanzetti case in the
1920s. We must broaden our approach to events that do directly affect
legal doctrine, such as Plessy v. Ferguson, the trial of the Scottboro
Boys, and the Flag Salute Cases. We must tell the stories of those
affected by constitutional change--the freedpeople in the postwar South,
the Japanese-American internees during World War Two. Yet, we must not
lose the importance of constitutional law in this process. This is where
those untrained in constitutional history often falter. Exposure to law is
necessary for an appreciation of the constraints it imposes upon elite
actors

Law and Politics Book Review
Vol. 7 No. 7 (July 1997) pp. 320-321.
CONSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL THEORY by Jan-Erik Lane. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1996. Distributed by St. Martin's Press, New
York. 294 pp. ISBN 0-7190-4648-3
Reviewed by Martin Edelman, Department of Political Science, University at
Albany.
<http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/LANE.htm>

The real issue is how actual practice diverges from the formal
constitution. At one extreme are the camouflage constitutions like those
of Josef Stalin; at the other, there is the importance of constitutional
law in the actual politics of the United States and Germany. As Professor
Lane notes, if actual practice diverges strongly from the formal document
[or recognized, established practice in nations without written
constitutions like the United Kingdom and Israel], the constitution ceases
to confer legitimacy.

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Without further introduction, the websites below will readers to the
full text of the constitutions of a large group of countries.

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FindLaw > Legal Subjects > Constitutional Law > Constitutions of the World
<http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/06constitutional/03forconst/>

International Constitutional Law
<http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/index.html>

Constitutional Documents
Country Information
Countries without ICL-Information

Constitutional law
<http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/alpha/c/constitutionallaw.htm>

A-Z World Constitutions
>From Charter88
The Constitution Society
Constitution Finder
>From the University of Richmond School of Law
Constitutional Laws of Nations
In English. From Chan Robles
International Constitutional Law

Kingwood College Library
Constitutions of the World
<http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/constitutions-subject.html>

National Constitutions
<http://www.constitution.org/cons/natlcons.htm>

Constitution Finder
<http://confinder.richmond.edu/>

AdmiNet > World > Constitutions
<http://www.adminet.com/world/consti/>

General resources

Building the Rule of Law (Melissa Thomas)
Constitution finder [~jpjones]
Constitutions of the Countries of the World
International Association of Constitutional Law
National Constitutions
World Constitutions
Yahoo/Law/Constitutional/
Constitutions, treaties, and official declarations
Rechtsnormen weltweit
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (written at the U.N. in 1948)
UN-Konvention zu den Rechten der Frau

Other resources (by countries)

Yahoo! Directory Constitutional Law > Constitutions
<http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Constitutional/Constitutions/>

Constitutional Laws of Nations of the World
<http://www.chanrobles.com/worldconstitutions.htm>


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/>
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