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Our Shared House · constitutional frameworks

Know the rules. Ask how they serve life.

Explore constitutional sources in all 199 country houses. Understand the framework for public power, ask about your rights, and consider how peaceful participation can help our shared world flourish.

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Different houses, a shared opportunity to understand

Some countries have one codified constitution; others rely on several Acts, Basic Laws, conventions or associated texts. A framework may also be amended, suspended or replaced during a transition. Every voice deserves respect as we examine how the rules work in practice.

This first edition locates official constitutional texts, collections or guidance for 33 houses and links dated comparative reference editions for 195 houses. Coverage overlaps. Direct official-source verification remains unfinished for the other houses, and no reference edition is presented as proof of the current law.

Source-location date: October 9, 2026. That is not an amendment date. Check each publisher’s current consolidation, language and legal-status notices.

199 country houses

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Look at rights, checks on power, public participation, amendment procedures and protection of future generations. Read clauses in context: limitations, exceptions, court decisions and ordinary laws may affect their meaning. A constitutional promise is not a measurement of whether it is upheld.

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Reference edition metadata is adapted from Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton, Constitute: The World’s Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare (Comparative Constitutions Project). Retrieved October 9, 2026. The metadata selection and country matching are ours. Metadata reuse follows the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 3.0 licence described on its About page. Metadata provenance. National and international publishers are linked within the individual houses.

We have not copied complete legal texts, translations, publishers’ explanatory articles or logos. External texts remain on their publishers’ websites, and their downloads and reuse are subject to their own terms. Our original explanations are educational information; they are not legal advice or authoritative legal translations. Country labels organise the conversation without deciding disputed recognition or borders.

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