With the December release, 62 new documents and 25 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Albania

• In September we included the text of the Constitution of 1998 as amended on 22 July 2016. Also included is the English translation from the Venice Commission

Austria

• We included 14 Constitutional Laws dating from 1862 to 2013 (all currently in force) in diglot German/English editions of the Federal Chancellery

Azerbaijan

• The Constitution of 1995 was further amended by the Referendum of 26 September 2016. The Constitutional Court has now provided the Azerbaijani and Russian texts…

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With the November release, 73 new documents and 28 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Algeria

• We add our own translation of the current/original text of the Constitution of 1989. This document was significantly amended in 1996 and again in 2016.

Bangladesh

• We include the current/latest English text of the Constitution of 1972 as amended by the Sixteenth Amendment Act of 2014.

Brazil

• Last month we published the Portuguese texts of the 93rd Amendment and the Transitional Constitutional Provisions Act (ADCT). Prof Keith Rosenn has now updated his translation of the ADCT…

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With the September release, 66 new documents and 23 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Albania

• We add the English translation of the Parliament of the Constitution of 1998 as amended to 2007, and the Albanian text of the amending law No. 9904 of 2008 from the official gazette

Algeria

• 5 documents have been added: all French texts from the official gazette: 3 from the transitional period of 1994, and 2 earlier ones from 1958 and 1963

Armenia

• The English translation of the Constitution of 1995 as amended to 2015…

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With the September release, 59 new documents and 27 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Albania

• Amending law No. 76/2016 of 22 July 2016 to the Constitution of 1998 has been included from the Official Gazette. The consolidated texts of the Official Gazette and of the Parliament are also included

Algeria

• 7 documents have been added covering the period from Independence in 1962 to the current text of 2016
• We added the French text of the Secretariat General of the Government which his well footnoted and which contains a useful comparative table of the numeration of the Articles that has evolved since 1996
• We also added our own translations of the original text of the Constitution of 1976 and as it was consolidated to 1980

Austria

• The Federal Constitutional Law was amended again by Federal Act No…

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With the August release, 27 new documents and 23 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Cameroon

• The National Assembly has produced new editions of the consolidated text of the current constitution of 1972 as amended
• The French text has been consolidated to the latest amendment of 2008

Mexico

• The Constitution of 1917 was amended again by Decree published in the Official Gazette of 25 July 206
• We include the text of the amending law…

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With the July release, 92 new documents and 23 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Austria

• The Constitution of Austria was amended again by Federal Act No. 41/2016 of 8 June 2016. We include the german text of the amending law, and two consolidated texts of the Federal Chancellery. The first of these is the German text which includes the state of the Constitution on the specific day of the download. The other is the diglot German/English text which is fully consolidated with all adopted provisions, even if they have not yet entered into force

Brazil

• The Constitution of 1988 was amended again by Consitutional Amendment No…

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With the June release, 45 new documents and 27 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Armenia

• The Russian text of the Constitution of 1995 as amended at the Referendum of 6 December 2015

Chile

• We include the original Spanish text of the Constitution of 1823, as published by the Imprenta Nacional in 1824

Costa Rica

• We added our own translation of the Political Constitution of 1844

Mexico

• Our own translation of the Bases of Political Organization of the Mexican Republic of 1843 has been added

Myanmar

• The Government of Burma Act of 1935 has been included

Senegal

• 6 documents have been added

Singapore

• The Constitution of 1963 was amended by Law No…

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With the May release, 28 new documents and 21 new titles have been added to World Constitutions Illustrated; see below for details.

Brazil

• Prof. Rosenn has updated his translations to the Portuguese documents concerning the Constitution of Brazil to acocunt for Constitutional Amendment No. 91 to include the text of the amending law, its position as part of the Non-inserted Provisions to the Constitution and his commentary.

Cote d'Ivoire

• Our own translation of the original text has been included of the Constitution of 2000, as well as the text from the official gazette and from the Secretariat General of the Government…

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