Contains Preamble text for 155 countries.
constitution
A data frame with 155 rows and 3 variables:
character: country name with words separated by underscores
integer: year the constitution was created
character: raw text of the preamble to the constitution
See QSS Table 5.6.
Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.
David S. Law and Mila Versteeg. (2012). 'The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution', New York University Law Review Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 762--858, and Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg.
James Melton. (2012). 'Comments on Law And Versteeg's the Declining Influence of the United States Constitution.' New York University Law Review Vol. 87, No. 6, pp. 2088--2101