Comparing Constitutions

Contains the texts of four major national constitutions - American, French, German, and Russian - together with major extracts from the Treaties establishing the European Community and the European Union. This work covers chapters on comparative constitutions and includes both analytical and alphabetical indexes. 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 basic political 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.