The Concept of the Western Constitutional State. Basic Ideas and Traditions
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Introduction
1. The subject of the Constitutional History
2. The concept of "Constitution"
3. “Modern Period” within the European History

I.) Europe in Early Modern Period: State and Society
1. The early modern System of Estate
2. The emergence of the modern state in modern times
3. The dualistic Corporative State and the political concept of "Absolutism“
4. The revolutionizing of State and Legal Thought in the sign of Enlightenment and Natural Law
5. State and Estates in the most important states of Europe in the early modern period:
England, France, Spain, "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation", Prussia and Austria

II.) The 19th century
1. The reorganization of Europe in the Napoleonic era: the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Congress of Vienna and the foundation of the German Confederation
2. The way to the Constitutional State in the most important states of Europe
2.1. The central ideas of the Constitutional State: the idea of taming the state through legal bonds, separation of powers, a reserve of law, rule of law, popular sovereignty
- The Democratic-Republican Model of the Constitutional State: The USA
- The Constitutional-Monarchical Model: The Constitutional Monarchy and “Constitutionalism”
2.2 England
2.3 France
2.4 Germany (German Federation)
2.5 Austria
3. The transition to parliamentarianism and the parliamentary monarchy in the countries of Western and Northern Europe

III.) Europe after the First World War
1. The collapse of the Eastern European Empires: Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
2. The transition to parliamentary democracy in Germany and Austria
3. Democracy in crisis: The legitimacy crisis of parliamentary democracy in Europe

IV.) World War II and National Socialism

V.) Divided Europe after World War II:
The constitutional development in Germany, France, and the UK

VI.)Notice
The course provides an overview of the historical and theoretical roots of the Europ