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Article: The Imperfect Union: Constitutional Structures of German Unification.
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- Michigan Law Review
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- May 1, 1998
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The Imperfect Union: Constitutional Structures of German Unification. By Peter E. Quint. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xi, 482. $75.
My first personal experience with the unification of my home country was an unlikely encounter in an unlikely place. In July 1990, I was strolling across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence when I saw something so bizarre that it stopped me in my tracks. At the southern end of the bridge, deep in the pedestrian zone -- off limits to automobiles -- and right in the middle of the tourist crowd, was a lonely car, occupied by four obviously disoriented people. It was not just any car but a small, drab, and amusingly ...