Constitution makers on constitution making
Subtitle: the experience of eight nations
By: edited by Robert A. Goldwin & Art Kaufman.
Contributors: Goldwin, Robert A., 1922-; Kaufman, Art.
Series: AEI studies ;; 479
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Distributed by arrangement with UPA
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Constitutional history -- Congresses.
Description: Eighty new constitutions, more than half of the written national constitutions in effect, have been written and adopted just since 1974, an average of more than five a year. At a time when the United States is observing the two-hundredth anniversary of its Constitution, the median age of all constitutions in the world is less than fifteen years. Never before have so many living constitution makers, in so many different kinds of regimes, been still active and capable of telling the story, firsthand, of how their nation's constitution was made. In eight pairs of papers, written from differing perspectivies, this book tells the story of the writing of the constitutions of France, Greece, the United States, Yugoslavia, Spain, Egypt, Venezuela, and Nigeria. It also includes an analysis by constitutional experts from twenty countries of how to put into practice the principles of constitutionalism--political liberty, security of rights, and self-government.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The drafting of the French constitution of 1958 / Jean Foyer; title: Making the constitution of Greece / Constantine D. Tsatsos; title: The writing of the constitution of the United States / Walter Berns; title: The creation of the 1974 constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Jovan Djordjevic; title: The writing of the constitution of Spain / Francisco Rubio Llorente; title: The writing of the 1971 Egyptian constitution / Ibrahim Saleh; title: The making of the Venezuelan constitution / Gustavo Planchart Manrique; title: The making of the Nigerian constitution / F.R.A. Williams.