Comparing Constitutions

BL Contains the texts of the American, French, German,and Russian constitutions BL Contains major extracts from the European Community and Maastricht treaties 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 basicpolitical 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.Finer, S. E. is the author of 'Comparing Constitutions', published 1995 under ISBN 9780198763451 and ISBN 019876345X.