This volume contains important constitutional and legislative texts from the United States France Germany the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as well as provisions from the European Convention on Human Rights and the Treaty on European Union It helps students to work with and to cite written sources of constitutional law from various systems All texts are reproduced in the original or authentic English or are freshly translated into English under critical editorship Unlike many other translations this volume remains true to the content style and syntax of the original texts This allows the reader to appreciate not only the substance but also the authentic form – and the beauty of old fashioned or cryptic language – of constitutional sources
