The first requirement for a comparative approach to constitutional politics—politics of the creation and reconstruction of political order—is to broaden its scope by shifting the focus of analysis from constitutionalism to constitution-making. I have argued elsewhere that constitution-making often has little to do with Although it still retains its association with the original eighteenth-century idea of the constituent power of the representatives of the people, constitution- making has performed different functions in different historical periods, and it should be added, in different regions of the world in the same period
