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Since 1975 Sweden has been living and working with a new Constitution. That year marked the end of an era as well as the end of a long struggle, for one of the world’s oldest written Constitutions was transformed into a modern one.
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Larsson, T. (1988). Sweden: The New Constitution — An Old Practice Adjusted. In: Blondel, J., Müller-Rommel, F. (eds) Cabinets in Western Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19616-6_13
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