Intro
Preface
Contents
1: The Forge of Constitutionalism
1.1 Constitutionalism: A Definition
1.2 The Contribution of Ancient Constitutionalism: Jusnaturalism, Mixed Government, and Contractarianism
1.3 The Doctrine of Sovereignty and the Foundation of the Nation State in the Modern Age
1.4 The Minority Paths of Constitutionalism in the Age of Absolute Sovereignty
References
2: Achievements: Constitutionalism in the Age of the Modern Revolutions
2.1 Triggering the Constitutional Experience
2.2 The Origins of English Constitutionalism

2.3 The Foundation of Constitutionalism in Great Britain: Republicanism and Liberalism
2.4 The First and Second English Revolutions: The Settlement of the Constitutional Monarchy
2.5 The Bill of Rights of 1689 and the Rights of First Generation
2.6 American Constitutionalism: Foundations
2.7 The American Revolution
2.8 From Independence to the Philadelphia Convention: The Revolutionary Decade
2.9 The Philadelphia Convention
2.10 The Federal Constitution
2.11 The Ratification Process and the Bill of Rights
2.12 The Emergence of the Judicial Review of Legislation

2.13 Constitutionalism in the French Revolution: Historical and Theoretical Premises
2.14 The Summer of 1789: From the Constituent Assembly to the Declaration of Rights
2.15 1789-1799: French Revolutionary Constitutions
2.16 Western Constitutional Traditions: Convergence or Divergence?
References
3: The Different Paths of Western Constitutional Law in the Nineteenth Century
3.1 Constitutionalism in the Liberal State
3.2 British Evolutionary Constitution: From the Constitutional Monarchy to Parliamentary Government

3.3 The Progress of American Constitutional Law in the Nineteenth Century: From the Early Republic to the Civil War
3.4 Liberal Constitutionalism in Nineteenth Century Europe
3.5 European Constitutions of the Liberal Age
3.6 The Development of Public Administration in the Liberal State
3.7 Principle of Legality and Rule of Law
References
4: Constitutionalism in the Age of Democratization
4.1 Constitutionalism and Democracy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
4.2 The Evolution of the American Constitution
4.3 The United Kingdom Between the Two World Wars

4.4 The Irish Independence and the Constitution of 1937
4.5 European Constitutions in the Aftermath of the First World War
4.6 A European Invention: The Centralized Review of the Legislation
4.7 The Weimar Constitution
4.8 Toward the Catastrophe
References
5: Framing Constitutional Democracy: The Anglo-American Experience
5.1 From the British Colonial Empire to the Commonwealth
5.2 The Constitutional Order of Canada
5.3 The Constitutional Orders of Australia and New Zealand