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General Resources

  • Bibliography of Comparative Constitutional Drafting Resources
    A comprehensive bibliograpy of scholarly works related to constitutional drafting.

  • Center for Democracy and Development
    The CDD website highlights the work of the Centre through its publications, conferences, resources and projects, including Promoting Constitutionalism in Africa. Related papers are Constitution Making in Nigeria: Lessons for Making a People's Constitution and Constitutional Reform in Nigeria: Perspectives from Civil Society, produced by The Citizen's Forum for Constitutional Reform (CFCR), a "coalition of civil society organizations committed to a process-led and participatory approach to constitutional reform in Nigeria," and part of the CDD.

  • Center for Research on Direct Democracy
    The Center recently began a project entitled "Constitutional Conventions, Direct Democracy, and Institutional Change." The objective of the project is to measure and to compare the relationship between constituitonal conventions, direct democracy, and institutional change, and to evaluate the specific conflict resolution capacity of constitutional conventions.

  • Central Intelligence Agency - World Factbook
    Listing of the promulgation and/or in force dates for the currently in force constitution for every country in the world.

  • Comparative Constitutions Project
    A project intended to investigate the sources and consequences of constitutional choices through the collection of data on the formal characteristics of written constitutions, both current and historical, for most independent states since 1789.

  • Constitution Writing & Conflict Resolution
    This site contains materials from Jennifer Widner's project on constitutional design processes. It includes a repository with information about steps countries have taken to produce new constitutions since 1975, including over 190 country summaries as well as reports on special topics.

  • International Network to Promote the Rule of Law (INPROL)
    With a digital library of over 1,250 documents, INPROL is a consortium of practitioners joined together to develop the human capacity and intellectual resources required to promote the rule of law in countries transitioning from war to peace.
    *INPROL is available to members only, please go the site for details about how to apply for membership.

  • USIP: Constitution-Making Web Links
    Contains documents relating to all aspects of constitution-making, including general resources, national constitutional assemblies, non-governmental organizations and constitutional studies.

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Primers on Selected Constitutional Design Topics

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National Constitutional Commissions

  • Citizens' Constitutional Forum (CCF), Fiji
    CCF is a non-partisan civil society organization that has been working since 1992 to secure a democratic constitution and to strengthen institutions of accountability, human rights and multiculturalism in Fiji. Its web site has publications, the text of Fiji constitutions, and related links.

  • Legal and Constitutional Commission: Rwanda Republic
    In French, English and Kinyarwanda, the website describes the mission and objectives of the commission, with news, public feedback, and links to an action plan and a 2003 draft of the Rwanda constitution.

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Constitutional Texts

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