New constitutions are written every year. The people who write these important documents need to read and analyze texts from other places. Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

Constitute allows you to interact with the world’s constitutions in a few different ways.
Quickly find relevant passages. The Comparative Constitutions Project has tagged passages of each constitution with a topic — e.g., “right to privacy” or “equality regardless of gender” — so you can quickly find relevant excerpts on a particular subject, no matter how they are worded. You can browse the 300+ topics in the menu on the left of the page, or see suggested topics while typing in the search bar (which also lets you perform free-text queries).

Filter searches. Want to view results for a specific region or time period? You can limit your search by country or by date using the “Show Filters” option to the right of the search bar.

Currently Constitute includes the constitution that was in force in September of 2013 for nearly every independent state in the world, but we continue to update these texts as they are amended or replaced. Arabic Constitute includes constitutions for fifty-four independent states, a sample that represents every region in the world.