In Revolutionary Constitutions, Ackerman draws on years of historical analysis and constitutionalism to explore how constitutional change happens in United States and in countries such as India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, and Iran... ..…

With no “appropriation” allowed, jazz would have to be confined to North America; Arabic numerals would be restricted to India, where they originated; Swahili would be eliminated in most of Africa since it was a commercial lingua franca imposed by Arab slave traders; wine and brandy..…