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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Author -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- 1. AN OVERVIEW OF SPANISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY -- 2. THE DRAFTING OF THE 1978 CONSTITUTION -- 3. FORM OF GOVERNMENT -- I. The Social and Democratic State of Law -- A. The State of Law -- B. Superior Values of the Legal Order -- II. Parliamentary Monarchy -- III. The Autonomous State -- 4. THE TERRITORY OF THE STATE (GEOGRAPHICAL DATA) -- 5. POPULATION (DEMOGRAPHIC DATA) -- Part I. The Sources of Law -- Chapter 1. The Constitution -- 1. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS -- I. A Consensual Normative Constitution -- II. A Final Constitution with a Complex Structure -- III. An Open Text: The Real Constitution -- 2. REFORM OF THE CONSTITUTION -- I. General Questions -- II. The Ordinary Reform Procedure -- III. The Extraordinary Reform Procedure -- Chapter 2. International Treaties -- 1. THE CONCLUSION OF TREATIES -- 2. THE INTEGRATION OF TREATIES IN THE SPANISH LEGAL SYSTEM -- Chapter 3. Laws and Norms with the Force of Law -- 1. CLASSES OF NORMS WITH THE FORCE OF LAW -- I. Ordinary Law -- II. Organic Law -- III. The Legislative Decree -- IV. Decree-Law -- V. Autonomous Law -- 2. THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NORMS WITH THE FORCE OF LAW -- Chapter 4. Jurisprudence -- Chapter 5. Unwritten Law -- 1. CUSTOMARY LAW -- 2. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW -- Chapter 6. Regulations -- Chapter 7. Codification, Interpretation and Publication -- 1. CODIFICATION -- 2. INTERPRETATION -- 3. PUBLICATION -- Part II. The Form of Government -- Chapter 1. A General Overview -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. POLITICAL PARTIES AND INTEREST GROUPS -- 3. MISCELLANEOUS: REFERENDUMS AND POPULAR INITIATIVES -- Chapter 2. The Head of State -- 1. DESIGNATION -- 2. LEGAL STATUS OF THE KING -- 3. FUNCTIONS OF THE KING -- Chapter 3. The State Parliament.

v. 1. An introduction to American Constitutional Law -- National power : Article I and the powers and limits of Congress -- Limits on federal power : the federal structure, the 10th Amendment, and state sovereign immunity -- Powers and limits of the federal courts -- The role of the President -- Limits on state power : preemption, the Dormant Commerce Clause, and the Privileges and Immunities Clause -- The incorporation of the Bill of Rights -- Substantive due process -- v. 2. Procedural due process -- Freedom of speech and press. pt. I. Overview : a graphic review of the 1st Amendment ; pt. II. The 1st Amendment and government control of the content of expression ; pt. III. The 1st Amendment : restrictions on time, place, and manner of expression--regulating governmental property ; pt. IV. The 1st Amendment and limits on political campaigns -- Freedom of religion -- Equal protection -- Governmental actors, private actors, and the scope of the 13th and 14th Amendments

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Authors -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- 1. AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY -- I. From Constitutional Revolutions to the Emergence of the Parliamentary Regime (1789-1875) -- II. The Third Republic (1875-1940) -- A. The Institutions of the Third Republic -- B. The Practice of the Regime -- III. The Fourth Republic (1946-1958) -- A. The Institutions of the Fourth Republic -- B. The Practice of the Regime -- IV. The Fifth Republic (1958 to Present) -- A. Adoption of the Constitution -- B. Evolution of the Constitution -- 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FRENCH STATE -- I. The Indivisibility of the Republic -- A. A Unitary State -- B. A Decentralized Organization -- II. Secularism -- III. A Democratic and Social Republic -- A. Democracy and the Rule of Law -- B. A Social Republic -- IV. The Political Regime -- A. A Parliamentary Republic -- B. A Semi-Presidential Regime -- 1. The Pre-eminence of the President of the Republic -- 2. The Periods of Cohabitation -- 3. STATE TERRITORY -- I. A Complex Territorial Organization -- II. Powers of Local Authorities -- 4. POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS -- Selected Further Reading -- Part I. Sources of Constitutional Law -- Chapter 1. Treaties -- 1. THE TREATY-MAKING POWER -- 2. THE POSITION OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES IN THE DOMESTIC NORMATIVE HIERARCHY -- I. The Supra-Legislative and Infra-Constitutional Position of International Treaties -- II. The Subordination of International Treaties to the Constitution -- A. The General Subordination of International Treaties to the Constitution -- B. The Special Constitutional Position of EU Law -- Chapter 2. The Constitution -- 1. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS -- I. The Supremacy of the Constitution.