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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- General Introduction -- 1. The Birth and Evolution of Portugal -- 2. Portuguese Citizenship -- 3. Portuguese Sovereignty -- 4. The Portuguese Territory -- 5. Shaping and Evolution of the Portuguese Constitution -- 6. The Republican, Democratic and Semi-presidential Political System -- 7. Unitarian Structure of the Portuguese State and Minor Political Entities -- Part I. Sources of Portuguese Law -- Chapter 1. The Constitution as the Main Source of Portuguese Constitutional Law -- 1. General Meaning of Constitution -- 2. The Constitution as Law of the State -- 3. The Constitution as the Supreme Act of Public Law -- 4. The Constitution as the Core of the Positive Legal Order -- 5. The Constitution as Legal Code -- Chapter 2. Constituent Power and Constitutional Reform -- 1. Constituent Power and the Birth of the Constitution -- 2. The Characteristic Features of Constituent Power -- 3. Particular Manifestations of the Constituent Power -- 4. Constitutional Reform -- 5. Entrenched Matters and Constitutional Reform -- 6. The Hyper-rigidity of the Portuguese Constitution -- Chapter 3. The Secondary Sources of Portuguese Constitutional Law -- 1. The Diminished Relevance of Constitutional Custom -- 2. Practical Limitation of Constitutional Jurisprudence -- 3. Exclusion of Other Sources of Constitutional Law -- Chapter 4. The Non-constitutional Sources of Portuguese Law -- 1. General Framework of the Public Law Functions and Acts and Their Hierarchy -- 2. International Function and International Conventions -- 3. Legislative Function and Legislative Acts -- 4. Political Function and Political Acts -- 5. Administrative Function and Administrative Acts -- 6. Judicial Function and Judicial Acts.

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