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The concept of constitutionalism like all other social sciences concepts, has all the time been subject to or part of an evolutionary procedure. Therefore, we cannot point out any specific time or event that led to its creation or emergence, though a succession of such events may have led to determining and acquisition of an image as a conclusion of the totality of those events or processes. Generally, they are shaped in the context of paradigm shifts in social and political structures. Constitutionalism has one indispensable quality: it is a legal limitation on government; it is the antithesis of arbitrary rule; its opposite is despotic government, the government of will instead of law. The book skilfully introduces the fact of constitutional amendments and provides a sophisticated justification for constitutional unamendability. The book's appeal is not only to those studying constitutional change, but also to scholars of comparative law and comparative politics, as well as those brooding over what it means to uphold democracy.