Blog by Alan Trench, Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster, about devolution in the UK. Includes numerous posts on the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. Provides a briefing called ‘Devolution: the basics’ as well as information about the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula and the Sewel Convention. The blog features Trench’s Twitter feed and also offers RSS feeds for new blog posts and comments.
The official website of the Department of Information in the Republic of Maldives (part of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture), formally the Ministry of Legal Reform, Information and Arts. The Downloads section contains links to PDFs of law and regulations, mainly relating to information and media but including the country’s constitution. Most documents are in Dhiveti, but the constitution is in English.
This site contains the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda, in the Political Database of the Americas, a non-governmental project run by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University in the US. The Constitution includes sections on the rights of the individual, Parliament, Finance, and Public Service.
Amendments made to the Constitution of Anguilla in 1990 provided by the UK’s National Archives. It is a free, publicly available full-text document. The amendments mainly constitute changes to the names of official positions, regions and Assembly procedure.
This website provides full-text files of the legal agenda in Turkey in recent years as well as legislative documents (often sourced from government websites) relating to a wide variety of topics such as administrative regulation, arbitration, employment, telecommunications, the judiciary system, trade, tax, trademarks, and environmental practice. Also provides sample legal documents relating to sales, partnership, merger, rental, employment and trademark agreements. Both the website and documents are available in English and Turkish.
The Institute for Policy & Legal Studies, an Albanian non-profit, non- governmental organisation, has made available English language versions of current, previous and draft Constitutions, the Civil Code, Family Code and Code of Administrative Procedures.
This website gives an overview of the development of the Dutch Constitution, from the late eighteenth century to the present day, and provides information about pending changes. It includes translations of the current Constitution into English, French, German and Spanish, but most of the content is in Dutch. To find the translations, keep clicking on the links under each article of the current Constitution (‘Huidige Grondwet’).
This site contains the full text of the 1994 Belgian Constitution, made freely available in English by International Constitutional Law (ICL) at the University of Bern in Switzerland. A constitutional background is provided including history and revisions. The Constitution covers the structure of the state, citizens’ rights, the legislature, the monarchy, the executive, provincial, regional and local government and bodies, the judiciary and constitutional court, international relations, finance, the army and police and the revision of the constitution.
Freely available English translation of the 2011 Constitution Declaration, provided on Egypt’s Government Services Portal. The constitution came into force following the 2011 revolution, and was approved by a national referendum in March 2011. It is a provisional working constitution, to be used during the current period of transition in Egyptian politics.
A non governmental project maintained by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University, USA in collaboration with other bodies. It was started in 1995. A principal feature of the site is a study of the constitutions of the Latin American countries, with the full text of the relevant Constitution. For each country suggestions are made of additional supporting literature but only the bibliographical information is available. There is also background information about other topics including the electoral system and political parties of the countries.
