@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9qdcdp.9, ISBN = {9781782385042}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qdcdp.9}, abstract = {Since modern constitutionalism’s beginnings in the last three decades of the eighteenth century, an increasing number of people worldwide have shared the idea that a written document represents a basic component in a constitution.¹ In general, we may say that today, the “constitution” concept is widely connected with texts. However, a constitution may connect with texts not only as a connection between a constitution and a written document. In this chapter, I discuss five possible connections between constitutions and texts. This discussion will focus on the Norwegian Constitution of 1814 and its connections with texts up until today.This chapter}, author = {Dag Michalsen}, booktitle = {Writing Democracy: The Norwegian Constitution 1814-2014}, edition = {1}, pages = {60--74}, publisher = {Berghahn Books}, title = {The Many Textual Identities of Constitutions}, year = {2015} }