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- Variations in formality
- Written vs. non-written
- New vs. old
- The virtues of vagueness
- Adapt to changing circumstances
- Examples of problems due to 'misplaced specificity'
- Other principles of constitutional design
- Importance of long-standing traditions
- The importance of amendability
- Importance of incentive compatibility
- Constitution Writing
- The geographic concentration of power: centralization
- "Federal" and "unitary" states
- The distinction between "unitary" and "centralized" states
- How much centralization is good?
- Appropriate level of centralization depends on the state, circumstances
- Most complex industrialized states comfortable with considerable but limited degree of centralization
- Constitutionalism and the Law
- Guarantee of Rights
- Examples:
- Constitutional government in Great Britain
- Constitutional government in Russia
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