This book is a comprehensive study of the institutional setting of European constitutions and provides a systematic study of the constitutional principles and organisation of state powers. The following issues are addressed:
Terminology
Notion and functions of constitution
Sources of constitutional law
Constituent and amending power
Protecting the constitution
Directive principles
Fundamental constitutional principles
Division of powers
Division of functions
Parliament
Head of state
Government and administration
The judicial power
Territorial division of powers
Europeanisation and internationalisation of the constitution