1. T. G. Bergin (ed.) The Prince (New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1947) p. 15. Part of the quotation achieved prominence during recent Canadian debates, where a slightly paraphrased version concluded a secret federal government strategy paper.
2. E. McWhinney, Constitution-making: Principles, Process, Practice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981) p. 3.
3. Ivo Duchacek, Power Maps: Comparative Politics of Constitutions (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1973) p. 3.
4. See Carl Friedrich, ‘The Political Theory of the New Democratic Constitutions’, and Harry Eckstein, ‘Constitutional Engineering and the Problem of Viable Representative Government’, both in Harry Eckstein and David Apter (eds.) Comparative Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1963) pp. 97–104 and 140–9.
5. Hanspeter Tschaeni, ‘Constitutional Change in Swiss Cantons: An Assessment of a Recent Phenomenon’, Publius, 12 (1982) pp. 113–49.