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Foreword
Preface
Overview
Part 1: Introduction to constitution-making processes
Part 2: Tasks in a constitution-making process
Part 3: Institutions, groups, and procedures
Part 4: Guide to key external actors in the process: Civil society, the media, and the international community
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:: The Constitution-making Handbook ::
Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
Overview
Need for and purposes of this handbook
How to use this handbook
Acknowledgments
Some emerging guiding principles
Impacts of adherence to guiding principles
Part 1: Introduction to constitution-making processes
1.1 The role of a constitution
1.2 Issues of process
1.3 Key components and issues of the constitution-making process
1.4 Tasks and responsibilities in constitution-making
1.5 Assessing the impact of the constitution-making process
1.6 Who does what? A table
Part 2: Tasks in a constitution-making process
2.1 Tasks—starting a process
2.2 Public participation
2.3 Administering and managing the process and its resources
2.4 The agenda of constitutional issues and generating ideas on the issues
2.5 Debating and deciding the issues
2.6 The constitutional text: Coherence and drafting
2.7 Adopting and implementing the constitution
Part 3: Institutions, groups, and procedures
3.1 Institutions with multiple roles
3.2 Institutions that develop proposals about which final decisions are made elsewhere
3.3 Administrative management bodies
3.4 Specialist or technical input institutions
3.5 Referendums and plebiscites
Part 4: Guide to key external actors in the process
4.1 Civil society and the media
4.2 Guidance for the international community
Appendix A: Case Studies
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Sample codes of conduct
Appendix D: References
Boxes
Tables
