Borrowing Constitutional Designs : : Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic / / Cindy Skach.
After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary model found in most of Western Europe at the time, nor the presidential model of the Americas. Rather, i...
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