Constitutional Provisions on National and Religious Identity

The Law Library of Congress is proud to present a new report, Constitutional Provisions on National and Religious Identity.

This report contains information on provisions in constitutions and other founding documents specifying an ethnic or religious identity for an Asian or European country. Section I covers twenty countries and includes those indicating an ethnic identity and in some cases also a religious one. Section II covers four countries for whom those documents mention only a religious identity, not an ethnic one, and whose constitutions indicate that the specified religion is the basis for legislation. Section III covers thirteen countries that specify a religion, without necessarily indicating that religion is the basis of legislation and without any single ethnic identity.

Visit http://www.loc.gov/law/help/national-religious-identity/constitutional-provisions.php to read the entire report.

This report is one of many prepared by the Law Library of Congress available at http://loc.gov/law/help/legal-reports.php and one of the new reports highlighted at http://www.loc.gov/law/help/current-topics.php. The Law Library of Congress produces reports for members of Congress and others. Learn more at http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/05/law-library-provides-global-legal-research/.