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Introduction: The relevance of public choice for constitutional political economy.- Positive constitutional economics: A survey.- Constitutions for new democracies: Reflections of turmoil or agents of stability?.- Toward a new constitution for a future country.- The balanced budget amendment: Clarifying the arguments.- The prohibition-repeal amendments: A natural experiment in interest group influence.- Term limits and electoral competitiveness: Evidence from California’s state legislative races.- Choosing free trade without amending the U.S. Constitution.- Marginal cost sharing and the Articles of Confederation.- On the (relative) unimportance of a balanced budget.- Public choice in a federal system.- Federalism and the European Union: A constitutional perspective.- Subsidiarity and ecologically based taxation: A European constitutional perspective.- Rule and policy spaces and economic progress: Lessons for Third World countries.