Contents -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Sub-national Constitutionalism and Constitutional Development -- PART ONE Sub-national Constitutionalism in Territorially Based Federations -- 2 State Constitutions and American Political Development -- 3 Legislative Competences, Budgetary Constraints, and the Reform of Federalism in Germany from the Top Down and the Bottom Up -- 4 Sub-national Constitutions and the Federal Constitution in Austria -- PART TWO Sub-national Constitutionalism in Multinational Federations -- 5 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Trying to Build a Federal State on Paradoxes -- 6 New Constitutions for All Swiss Cantons: A Contemporary Challenge -- 7 The Constitutional and Institutional Autonomy of Communities and Regions in Federal Belgium -- 8 Canada: Federal and Sub-national Constitutional Practices -- PART THREE Constitutional Development in Territorially Decentralized States -- 9 Quiet Devolution: Sub-state Autonomy and the Gradual Reconstitution of the United Kingdom -- 10 Spain's Constitution and Statutes of Autonomy: Explaining the Evolution of Political Decentralization -- 11 Italy: A Federal Country without Federalism? -- PART FOUR Supranational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Futures in Europe -- 12 Member State Constitutions in the European Union -- 13 Sub-national Units, Member States, and the European Union -- Contributors -- Index.