's written constitution is a central and possibly the most important manifestation of the social contract. Once it is accepted … that the contents of a constitution are subject to human design, scholars interested in the organization of human societies … can be expected from the design of different elements of a constitution. For a long time, (comparative) constitutional …

Over the last decades, more and more countries have integrated environmental protection into their constitution. In … favors future-oriented behavior are more likely to entrench environmental protection in their constitution. We study the … adopt a green constitution. Political institutions are less important and do not exert a statistically significant effect …

suggests that economically heterogeneous states are more likely to adopt a federal constitution …

, whereas military dictatorships perform the worst. Although compliance is not determined by a constitution's breadth … the constitution achieve higher compliance levels. …