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Constitutions of the World from the late 18th
Century to the Middle of the 19th Century
OnlineSources on the Rise of Modern
Constitutionalism
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Constitutions of the World Online

• Constitutions of the World Online is the Internet
  portal of the
• international research project The Rise of Modern
  Constitutionalism.
• Aim of the project is to make all constitutional
  documents from
• 1776 until 1849 available in its original and in
  an edited version.
• Partners in this project are
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Universität Kassel
• Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum and Staats- und
  Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
• K. G. Saur Verlag, an Imprint of Walter de
  Gruyter GmbH Co KG

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Constitutions of the World Online

• The project is lead by Prof. Horst Dippel and his
  team from the
• University of Kassel, Germany. The online
  database was developed at
• the Göttingen Digitization Centre, Germany.
• 50 scholars worldwide as well as the finest
  research institutions in
• constitutional history contribute to the project.
• Results of the project are published in a book
  edition at K. G. Saur Verlag Constitutions of
  the World from the late 18th Century to the
  Middle of the 19th Century Sources on the Rise
  of Modern Constitutionalism. 2005-2009, 24
  volumes in several partsISBN 978-3-598-35680-3
• The volumes of the book edition are available
  online once they are published.

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Content of the database

• The database contains
• Constitutions
• Amendments
• Drafts of Constitutions
• Declarations of Rights
• from 51 countries in all the then used languages.
• The documents are available as digital facsimile
  copies and in edited and annotated versions

original
edition
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Size of the database

• The project is still ongoing, the database is
  growing continuously.
• Currently (July 2009) the database contains
  approx. 1,350 digitized facsimile texts and
  approx. 820 edited constitutions documents.
• Estimated are approx. 1,500 constitutional
  documents.

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Browse and search options

• The database offers two ways to access the
  constitutional documents
• Browse lists for countries, dates and titles to
  access all documents from a certain country,
  sub-national unit (state or region), by year of
  adoption or draft, or through a certain title.
• Search options
• Metadata search through the descriptive data of
  all documents such as title, country, type etc.
• Full text search through all edited
  constitutional documents
• Index search through all edited constitutional
  documents

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Index search

• Each paragraph of each edition text has been
  indexed using standardized index terms in 16
  different languages.
• This means that each document, irrespective its
  language, can be accessed using a standardized
  term in any of the languages.
• The results list shows the relevant paragraphs
  for the index term in the constitutional
  document. Paragraphs from different constitutions
  can thus be easily compared

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Access www.modern-constitutions.de
The main page offers information on the project
and its partners. Access to the content is
through the navigation line at the top.
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Browse countries to find constitutions
Select the country from the box on top of the
page and see all documents relating to this
country
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Document page for each constitution
Access to the digital facsimile and edition texts
as well as links to the metadata of both
versions. It is also shown if multiple language
versions are available.
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Digital facsimile copy
The digital facsimile can be easily browsed
through
Descriptive metadata for the digital facsimile
copy
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Edition text of the constitution
The edition text is linked with the digital
facsimiles. The document TOC allows easy access
to the different chapters.
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Edition text of the constitution
The editors notes can be found at the bottom of
each document. Footnotes in the text link to them.
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Edition text of the constitution
The descriptive metadata gives a full
bibliographic citation of the document including
its persistent URL
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Further Questions?
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