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"This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the women's suffrage movement and the 19th amendment, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women"--

Introduction to the Colombian constitution of 1991 and the Constitutional Court -- The role of the Constitutional Court -- Dignity and autonomy -- Equality -- Freedom of speech and freedom of religion -- Social rights -- The rights of victims and transitional justice -- The rights of indigenous peoples -- The president : problems of executive overreach -- The congress: problems of abdication and deliberation -- Constitutional amendment and the substitution of the constitution doctrine

The people as amenders of the constitution / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Constitutional reform in Europe and recourse to the people / Paul Blokker -- A future for referendums in the Fifth French Republic? / Jan-Herman Reestman -- Participation of citizens in constitution-making : assets and challenges : the Swiss experience / Thomas Fleiner -- Direct democracy vs fundamental rights? : a comparative analysis of the mechanisms that limit the "will of the people" in Switzerland and California / Claudia Josi -- The people's contribution to constitutional changes : writing, advising or approving? : lessons from Iceland / Björg Thorarensen -- Bringing people into the heart of constitutional design : the Irish Constitutional Convention of 2012-14 / David M. Farrell, Clodagh Harris, and Jane Suiter -- The "sudden eagerness" to consult the Luxemburgish people on constitutional change / Jörg Gerkrath -- The role of the people in constitutional amendment in Greece : between narratives and practice / Alkmene Fotiadou -- The use of referendums on European topics in the integration process of the European Union / Dario Elia Tosi -- Sovereignty, constitutional identity, direct democracy? : direct democracy as a national strategy for upholding the nation state in EU integration / Helle Krunke