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Constitutional Law

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This chapter deals with constitutional law, and focuses upon:

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    the nature of states and their sovereignty;

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    the ways in which state power is constrained;

  3. 3.

    democratic control over state power.

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  • Ginsburg T, Dixon R (eds) (2011) Comparative constitutional law. Elgar, Cheltenham

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  • Heringa AW, Kiiver P (2012) Constitutions compared, 3rd edn. Intersentia, Antwerpen

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Heringa, A.W. (2014). Constitutional Law. In: Hage, J., Akkermans, B. (eds) Introduction to Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06910-4_8

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