Three takes on comparative constitutional history.

A review of The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, by Linda Colley, New York, Liveright, 2021, 512 pp, $19.95 (pbk), ISBN 978-0871403162; Modern Constitutionalism: Origin and Manifestations. England – North America – France – Germany – Europe/European Union – Latin America, by Horst Dippel, Clark, Talbot Publishing, 2 vols, 2022, xxii + 546, x +547-1177 pp, $295.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1616196769; The Story of Constitutions: Discovering the We in Us, by Wim Voermans, translated by Brendan Monaghan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 388 pp, £22.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1009385046 [published originally in Dutch as Wim Voermans, Het verhaal van de grondwet: zoeken naar wij, Amsterdam, Prometheus, 2019, 512 pp, €34.99 (hbk), ISBN 978-9044640014] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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