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32: 2600: 4836:, IV, Berlin: Reimer, 1889, pp. 82ff who argue that the document is a single treaty agreed upon shortly after the hijra. Wellhausen argues that it belongs to the first year of Muhammad's residence in Medina, before the battle of Badr in 2/624. Wellhausen bases this judgement on three considerations; first Muhammad is very diffident about his own position, he accepts the Pagan tribes within the Umma, and maintains the Jewish clans as clients of the Ansars see Wellhausen, Excursus, p. 158. Even Moshe Gil a skeptic of Islamic history argues that it was written within 5 months of Muhammad's arrival in Medina. Moshe Gil. "The Constitution of Medina: A Reconsideration." 321:, that is, from inception, not from the date of the finding. It was never "law", even though, if it had been a statute or statutory provision, it might have been adopted according to the procedures for adopting legislation. Sometimes the problem is not that a statute is unconstitutional, but that the application of it is, on a particular occasion, and a court may decide that while there are ways it could be applied that are constitutional, that instance was not allowed or legitimate. In such a case, only that application may be ruled unconstitutional. Historically, the remedies for such violations have been petitions for common law 1382: 47: 2183:
that the constitution guarantees. An alternative view considers that constitutions are not enforced by the citizens at-large, but rather by the administrative powers of the state. Because rulers cannot themselves implement their policies, they need to rely on a set of organizations (armies, courts, police agencies, tax collectors) to implement it. In this position, they can directly sanction the government by refusing to cooperate, disabling the authority of the rulers. Therefore, constitutions could be characterized by a self-enforcing equilibria between the rulers and powerful administrators.
2755: 4824:. pp. 227–228 Watt argues that the initial agreement was shortly after the hijra and the document was amended at a later date specifically after the battle of Badr (AH 2, = AD 624). Serjeant argues that the constitution is in fact 8 different treaties which can be dated according to events as they transpired in Medina with the first treaty being written shortly after Muhammad's arrival. R. B. Serjeant. "The Sunnah Jâmi'ah, Pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the Tahrîm of Yathrib: Analysis and Translation of the Documents Comprised in the so-called 'Constitution of Medina'." in 1394: 2371: 561: 2167:
their provisions tend to become very similar as they are amended after experience with their use. Provisions that give rise to certain kinds of questions are seen to need additional provisions for how to resolve those questions, and provisions that offer no course of action may best be omitted and left to policy decisions. Provisions that conflict with what Brownson and others can discern are the underlying "constitutions" of nature and society tend to be difficult or impossible to execute, or to lead to unresolvable disputes.
2127:, also examined how the functions of government, such as legislative, executive, and judicial, might appropriately be separated into branches. The prevailing theme among these writers was that the design of constitutions was not completely arbitrary or a matter of taste. They generally held that there are underlying principles of design that constrain all constitutions for every polity or organization. Each built on the ideas of those before concerning what those principles might be. 10438: 10452: 9218: 8702: 8691: 1619: 6953: 1198: 2300: 2238: 2197: 9230: 1373:, or tribal chiefs, of the Iroquois League's member nations made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single nation. The position of Sachem descends through families and are allocated by the senior female clan heads, though, prior to the filling of the position, candidacy is ultimately democratically decided by the community itself. 416: 3849:, etc.) which compose the territory of the whole state. Sovereignty is divided between the centre and the constituent regions. The constitutions of Canada and the United States establish federal states, with power divided between the federal government and the provinces or states. Each of the regions may in turn have its own constitution (of unitary nature). 604:. He classified both what he regarded as good and what he regarded as bad constitutions, and came to the conclusion that the best constitution was a mixed system including monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements. He also distinguished between citizens, who had the right to participate in the state, and non-citizens and slaves, who did not. 2508:. The process by which a country adopts a constitution is closely tied to the historical and political context driving this fundamental change. The legitimacy (and often the longevity) of codified constitutions has often been tied to the process by which they are initially adopted and some scholars have pointed out that high constitutional 2662:, most of its fundamental political principles and regulations concerning the relationship between branches of government, and concerning the government and the individual are codified in a single document, the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. However, the presence of statutes with constitutional significance, namely the 3929:. The example demonstrates that the protections and benefits of a constitution are ultimately provided not through its written terms but through deference by government and society to its principles. A constitution may change from being real to a facade and back again as democratic and autocratic governments succeed each other. 2119:. What arose from the latter was a concept of government being erected on the foundations of first, a state of nature governed by natural laws, then a state of society, established by a social contract or compact, which bring underlying natural or social laws, before governments are formally established on them as foundations. 5917:, Article 110 §1, p. 124, source: Hellenic Parliament, "The provisions of the Constitution shall be subject to revision with the exception of those which determine the form of government as a Parliamentary Republic and those of articles 2 paragraph 1, 4 paragraphs 1, 4 and 7 , 5 paragraphs 1 and 3, 13 paragraph 1, and 26." 2393:/administration. Most constitutions also attempt to define the relationship between individuals and the state, and to establish the broad rights of individual citizens. It is thus the most basic law of a territory from which all the other laws and rules are hierarchically derived; in some territories it is in fact called " 5083: 3886:
Many constitutions allow the declaration under exceptional circumstances of some form of state of emergency during which some rights and guarantees are suspended. This provision can be and has been abused to allow a government to suppress dissent without regard for human rights – see the article
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A fundamental classification is codification or lack of codification. A codified constitution is one that is contained in a single document, which is the single source of constitutional law in a state. An uncodified constitution is one that is not contained in a single document, consisting of several
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concept and its application to the relations among nations, and they sought to establish customary "laws of war and peace" to ameliorate wars and make them less likely. This led to considerations of what authority monarchs or other officials have and don't have, from where that authority derives, and
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to be contrary to the constitution, that is, unconstitutional. An example of constitutional violation by the executive could be a public office holder who acts outside the powers granted to that office by a constitution. An example of constitutional violation by the legislature is an attempt to pass
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Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Djibouti, Ecuador, Honduras, Laos, Libya, Malawi, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United
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Political economy theory regards constitutions as coordination devices that help citizens to prevent rulers from abusing power. If the citizenry can coordinate a response to police government officials in the face of a constitutional fault, then the government have the incentives to honor the rights
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is a society with effective dominion over a well-defined territory, that consent to a well-designed constitution of government arises from presence on that territory, and that it is possible for provisions of a written constitution of government to be "unconstitutional" if they are inconsistent with
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The most common reasons for these frequent changes are the political desire for an immediate outcome and the short time devoted to the constitutional drafting process. A study in 2009 showed that the average time taken to draft a constitution is around 16 months, however there were also some extreme
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and, if found to be beyond power, must cease. Legislation that is found to be beyond power will be "invalid" and of no force; this applies to primary legislation, requiring constitutional authorization, and secondary legislation, ordinarily requiring statutory authorization. In this context, "within
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Other writers have argued that such considerations apply not only to all national constitutions of government, but also to the constitutions of private organizations, that it is not an accident that the constitutions that tend to satisfy their members contain certain elements, as a minimum, or that
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was written in Latin and consists of six books. The first book, with 62 articles, establishes councils, courts, various executive officers, and the powers assigned to them. The remaining books cover criminal and civil law and judicial procedures and remedies. Written in 1600, the document was based
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predicted that a period of 20 years would be the optimal time for any constitution to be still in force, since "the earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead". Indeed, according to recent studies, the average life of any new written constitution is around 19 years. However, a great number of
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who appoints and dismisses them. In the case of the United Kingdom and other countries with a monarchy, it is the monarch who appoints and dismisses ministers, on the advice of the prime minister. In turn the prime minister will resign if the government loses the confidence of the parliament (or a
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have since 1950 been intended to be the basis for a constitution, but as of 2017 it had not been drafted. The various Laws are considered to have precedence over other laws, and give the procedure by which they can be amended, typically by a simple majority of members of the Knesset (parliament).
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refers to a set of rules and principles that define the nature and extent of government. Most constitutions seek to regulate the relationship between institutions of the state, in a basic sense the relationship between the executive, legislature and the judiciary, but also the relationship of
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Generally, every modern written constitution confers specific powers on an organization or institutional entity, established upon the primary condition that it abides by the constitution's limitations. According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it
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Along the way, several writers examined how the design of government was important, even if the government were headed by a monarch. They also classified various historical examples of governmental designs, typically into democracies, aristocracies, or monarchies, and considered how just and
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The Spanish pattern of conspiracy and revolt by liberal army officers ... was emulated in both Portugal and Italy. In the wake of Riego's successful rebellion, the first and only pronunciamiento in Italian history was carried out by liberal officers in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The
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or, depending on the country, loses a particularly important vote in parliament, such as vote on the budget. When a government loses confidence, it stays in office until a new government is formed; something which normally but not necessarily required the holding of a general election.
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brought a series of political philosophers who wrote implied criticisms of the practices of monarchs and sought to identify principles of constitutional design that would be likely to yield more effective and just governance from their viewpoints. This began with revival of the Roman
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A confederal state comprises again several regions, but the central structure has only limited coordinating power, and sovereignty is located in the regions. Confederal constitutions are rare, and there is often dispute to whether so-called "confederal" states are actually federal.
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in which play consists of finding the best design and provisions for a written constitution that will be the rules for the game of government, and that will be most likely to optimize a balance of the utilities of justice, liberty, and security. An example is the metagame
378:'s 1946 Constitution, the bureaucrats drafted everything in no more than a week. Japan has the oldest unamended constitution in the world. The record for the shortest overall process of drafting, adoption, and ratification of a national constitution belongs to the 3809:
In a unitary state, sovereignty resides in the state itself, and the constitution determines this. The territory of the state may be divided into regions, but they are not sovereign and are subordinate to the state. In the UK, the constitutional doctrine of
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in 1780, the oldest still-functioning constitution of any U.S. state; while Connecticut and Rhode Island officially continued to operate under their old colonial charters, until they adopted their first state constitutions in 1818 and 1843, respectively.
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Constitutions are often, but by no means always, protected by a legal body whose job it is to interpret those constitutions and, where applicable, declare void executive and legislative acts which infringe the constitution. In some countries, such as
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Constitutions also establish where sovereignty is located in the state. There are three basic types of distribution of sovereignty according to the degree of centralisation of power: unitary, federal, and confederal. The distinction is not absolute.
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No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send against him, unless by the legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the
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initially led to a proclamation of a proto-constitution in 1811; the full-fledged Constitution of Serbia followed few decades later, in 1835. The first Serbian constitution (Sretenjski ustav) was adopted at the national assembly in
382:'s 1938 constitution, which installed a royal dictatorship in less than a month. Studies showed that typically extreme cases where the constitution-making process either takes too long or is extremely short were non-democracies. 4571: 2036:, or mere personal whim. Such rule led some thinkers to take the position that what mattered was not the design of governmental institutions and operations, as much as the character of the rulers. This view can be seen in 397:
are said to have eclipsed the constitution in importance as a frame of government in practice. Developing a legal and political tradition of strict adherence to constitutional provisions is considered foundational to the
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sources but completed and reformed by St. Sava to function properly in Serbia. Besides decrees that organized the life of the church, there are various norms regarding civil life; most of these were taken from Prohiron.
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A synchronic comparative perspective were before the founding fathers of Italian Constitution, when they were faced with the question of bicameralism and related issues of confidence and the legislative procedure,
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in 1825. Italian liberalism in 1820–1821 relied on junior officers and the provincial middle classes, essentially the same social base as in Spain. It even used a Hispanized political vocabulary, for it was led by
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the constitutions of nature or society. Brownson argued that it is not ratification alone that makes a written constitution of government legitimate, but that it must also be competently designed and applied.
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that developed in Britain). By contrast to codified constitutions, uncodified constitutions include both written sources – e.g. constitutional statutes enacted by the Parliament – and unwritten sources –
354:(U.S. Constitution), which is the oldest and shortest written constitution still in force, close to 800 constitutions have been adopted and subsequently amended around the world by independent states. 1947:, the elder son of the king of Portugal. Pedro was crowned in 1822 as the first emperor of Brazil. The country was ruled by a Constitutional Monarchy until 1889 when it adopted the Republican model. 1593:
All of the British colonies in North America that were to become the 13 original United States, adopted their own constitutions in 1776 and 1777, during the American Revolution (and before the later
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came into force on 1 July 1867, as the British North America Act, an act of the British Parliament. Over a century later, the BNA Act was patriated to the Canadian Parliament and augmented with the
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within Medina. To this effect it instituted a number of rights and responsibilities for the Muslim, Jewish, and pagan communities of Medina bringing them within the fold of one community – the
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King, Brett W. "The Use of Supermajority Provisions in the Constitution: The Framers, The Federalist Papers and the Reinforcement of a Fundamental Principle." Seton Hall Const. LJ 8 (1997): 363.
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effective each tended to be and why, and how the advantages of each might be obtained by combining elements of each into a more complex design that balanced competing tendencies. Some, such as
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After tribal people first began to live in cities and establish nations, many of these functioned according to unwritten customs, while some developed autocratic, even tyrannical monarchs, who
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or constitution is a provision that makes certain amendments either more difficult or impossible to pass, making such amendments inadmissible. Overriding an entrenched clause may require a
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declared "that the people are, under God, the original of all just power; that the Commons of England, being chosen by and representing the people, have the supreme power in this nation".
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may be prohibited as an organization from engaging in activities not concerning students; if the union becomes involved in non-student activities, these activities are considered to be
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trying to legislate in an area that the constitution allocates exclusively to the federal parliament, such as ratifying a treaty. Action that appears to be beyond power may be
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Activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall within the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials are termed "within power" (or, in Latin,
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Most constitutions require that amendments cannot be enacted unless they have passed a special procedure that is more stringent than that required of ordinary legislation.
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A federal state has a central structure with at most a small amount of territory mainly containing the institutions of the federal government, and several regions (called
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The Sunnah Jami'ah, pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the Tahrim of Yathrib: Analysis and translation of the documents comprised in the so-called "Constitution of Medina."
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institutions within those branches. For example, executive branches can be divided into a head of government, government departments/ministries, executive agencies and a
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in 1100 bound the king for the first time in his treatment of the clergy and the nobility. This idea was extended and refined by the English barony when they forced
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said "A constitution...is the work of centuries; it is the idea, the consciousness of rationality so far as that consciousness is developed in a particular nation."
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expressed the option for the monarchy as a political system after Brazilian Independence. The leader of the national emancipation process was the Portuguese prince
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means that Australia's constitution is not contained in a single constitutional document. It means the Constitution of Australia is uncodified, it also contains
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would try to explain what constitutional designers were trying to do. According to Brownson there are, in a sense, three "constitutions" involved: The first the
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teachings, the document focuses more on social morality than on institutions of government, and remains a notable early attempt at a government constitution.
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nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance as far back as 1190 AD (though perhaps more recently at 1451) in which the
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or establish an independent judiciary, they may be ignored when the government feels threatened, or never put into practice. An extreme example was the
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also lacks explicit entrenched clauses, but has a similar substantive limit on amending its fundamental principles through judicial interpretations.
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In principle, constitutional rights are not a specific characteristic of democratic countries. Autocratic states have constitutions, such as that of
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below); in such states when an official act is unconstitutional, i.e. it is not a power granted to the government by the constitution, that act is
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noted the existence of national constitutions which are a facade for authoritarian sources of power. While such documents may express respect for
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of the United Kingdom. Uncodified constitutions largely lack protection against amendment by the government of the time. For example, the U.K.
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on the following day. The constitution set up a state council consisting of 21 members while executive authority was vested in the office of "
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law. That is, if there is any conflict between a legal statute and the codified constitution, all or part of the statute can be declared
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within articles 171 and 172 of Dušan's Code, which regulated juridical independence, is notable. They were taken from the Byzantine code
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is an example) devolve more and more power to sub-national governments until the state functions in practice much like a federal state.
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might be the world's oldest active written constitution, since some of its core documents have been in operation since 1600, while the
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used the term for significant and egregious violations of public trust, of a nature and extent that the transgression would justify a
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González de Lara, Yadira; Greif, Avner; Jha, Saumitra (May 2008). "The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions".
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Spanish-style military conspiracy also helped to inspire the beginning of the Russian revolutionary movement with the revolt of the
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in the original case was between the king and the nobility but was gradually extended to all of the people. It led to the system of
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is the oldest active codified constitution. The historical life expectancy of a constitution since 1789 is approximately 19 years.
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and is considered the first constitution of its kind in Europe and the world's second oldest one after the American Constitution.
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When these principles are written down into a single document or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to embody a
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of the union's charter, and nobody would be compelled by the charter to follow them. An example from the constitutional law of
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have agreed to abide by some Union-wide measures which restrict their absolute sovereignty in some ways, e.g., the use of the
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Estonia, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Palau, Philippines, Senegal, Serbia (in some cases), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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response. The term as used by Blackstone was not for a legal text, nor did he intend to include the later American concept of
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Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power (Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
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in 1814, adopting many facets from the American constitution and the revolutionary French ones, but maintaining a hereditary
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Constitutions usually explicitly divide power between various branches of government. The standard model, described by the
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The Constitutional Law Group, Canadian Constitutional Law. 3rd ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications Ltd., 2003, p. 5
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2008 Constitution was being secretly drafted for more than 17 years, whereas at the other extreme, during the drafting of
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that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, an important aspect of the constitutional structure of the
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constitutions do not last more than 10 years, and around 10% do not last more than one year, as was the case of the
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Uncodified constitutions are the product of an "evolution" of laws and conventions over centuries (such as in the
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SAH/D(2006)563 The Kurukan Fuga Charter: An example of an Endogenous Governance Mechanism for Conflict Prevention
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Albania, Andorra, Armenia (some amendments), Egypt, Slovenia, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen (some amendments), Zambia
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process, and/or other procedures that make amending a constitution more difficult than passing a simple law.
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combined this and two other earlier Saxon codes, with various Mosaic and Christian precepts, to produce the
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Some countries, mainly those with uncodified constitutions, have no such courts at all. For example, the
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was put in force in September 1848 (with official revisions in 1878, 1891, 1949, 1971, 1982 and 1999).
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constitution. It is the basis for every new Connecticut constitution since, and is also the reason for
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ruled by special codes of written laws. The oldest such document still known to exist seems to be the
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makes it impossible for certain basic features of the Constitution to be altered or destroyed by the
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in 1647, as a set of propositions intended to be a basis for a constitutional settlement after King
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What is sometimes called the "enlightened constitution" model was developed by philosophers of the
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promulgated the first detailed written constitution adopted by a modern state; it was called the
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Tooker E (1990). "The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League". In Clifton JA (ed.).
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Some countries are listed under more than one method because alternative procedures may be used.
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for many offenses (thus creating the modern term "draconian" for very strict rules). In 594 BC,
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is also its constitution, in that it would define how that organization is constituted. Within
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within a given country may itself be detrimental to separation of powers and the rule of law.
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together with assorted earlier Roman laws. Systems that appeared somewhat later include the
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Lewin, Leif (May 1, 2007). "Majoritarian and Consensus Democracy: the Swedish Experience".
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is the longest written constitution of any country in the world, with 146,385 words in its
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and traditions, such as holding general elections on Thursdays; together these constitute
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history. It was an organic, coherent, and systematic work of legislation encompassing the
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codes. There are a few historical records claiming that this law code was translated into
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prohibits abolishing equal suffrage of the States within the Senate without their consent
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Chilton, Adam S.; Versteeg, Mila (2014). "Do Constitutional Rights Make a Difference?".
2024:, Canada's constitution also has unwritten elements based in common law and convention. 1900:. The Spanish Constitution served as a model for other liberal constitutions of several 1067:
became the basis of the Serbian medieval law. The essence of Zakonopravilo was based on
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dictates that sovereignty is ultimately contained at the centre. Some powers have been
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again reformed the Athenian constitution and set it on a democratic footing in 508 BC.
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The official English language translation of the Greek Constitution as of May 27, 2008
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a law that would contradict the constitution, without first going through the proper
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was replaced in May 1657 by England's second, and last, codified constitution, the
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c. 942–950. It served as the main law code in Wales until it was superseded by the
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A constitutional violation is an action or legislative act that is judged by a
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systems of government, department secretaries/ministers are accountable to the
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This provision became the cornerstone of English liberty after that point. The
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In most but not all modern states the constitution has supremacy over ordinary
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Constitutions include various rights and duties. These include the following:
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Some constitutions are largely, but not wholly, codified. For example, in the
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was passed on 3 May 1791. Its draft was developed by the leading minds of the
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were promulgated by the Court from 1283 (or even two centuries before, if
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is considered part of the compilation of Constitutions) until 1716, when
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Agreements and Constitutions of Laws and Freedoms of the Zaporizian Host
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A seminal juncture in this line of discourse arose in England from the
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in 1215. The most important single article of Magna Carta, related to "
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A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a
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that includes all of what was called "natural law". The second is the
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Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
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remained the supreme law in Ethiopia until 1931, when a modern-style
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mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and
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does not contain specific provisions on entrenched clauses but the
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Estonia, Portugal (in the five years following the last amendment)
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The Life of Muhammad: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
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The Romans initially codified their constitution in 450 BC as the
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for an important determination, especially a decree issued by the
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Historia för gymnasiet: allmän och nordisk historia efter år 1000
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The American Republic: its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny
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The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
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presented by the Agitators and their civilian supporters at the
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most basic principles can never be abolished, even by amendment
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Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants)
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part of it). Confidence can be lost if the government loses a
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A History of Spain and Portugal: Eighteenth Century to Franco
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of law first. This article, Article 39, of Magna Carta read:
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established constitutional principles for the 3rd century BC
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Legislature (unicameral, joint session or lower house only)
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Diagram illustrating the classification of constitutions by
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in April 1827. The Carta was a work of great importance in
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Scholars debate whether a constitution must necessarily be
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is the shortest written constitution with 3,814 words. The
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a number of different statutes, amendments, and references
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different sources, which may be written or unwritten; see
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was used for those of England, beginning with the Code of
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included elements incorporated from an earlier document "
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Constitutionalism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Zachary, Elkins; Ginsburg, Tom; Melton, James (2009).
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Lower house + upper house + sub-national legislatures
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Most states in the world have codified constitutions.
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The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law
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Fritze, Ronald H. & Robison, William B. (1996).
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The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts About It
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entity. For example, the countries constituting the
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and accords give up parts of their sovereignty to a
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Constitutional design has been treated as a kind of
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Morawa (2010). 4713:"Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?" 4677:"Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?" 4645:"The Anomalous Life of the Japanese Constitution" 4611:"Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?" 4474:Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law 4415:Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law 3768: 3475:An entrenched clause or entrenchment clause of a 1308:(Town Statute) of 1300, itself influenced by the 1174:and entered Ethiopia around 1450 in the reign of 617:was not reorganized into a single code until the 10484: 6397:"Read about "Right to fair trial" on Constitute" 6247:"Read about "Freedom of religion" on Constitute" 6194:"Read about "Freedom of movement" on Constitute" 6119:"Read about "Freedom of assembly" on Constitute" 5703:"The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty" 2539:of legislators' votes, approval in two terms of 6942:United Nations Rule of Law: Constitution-making 6622:"Read about "Rights of children" on Constitute" 5958: 5931: 4746: 2924:>50% before and after an election + >50% 2792:Procedures for amending national constitutions 1805:and codified constitutions written thereafter. 1661:, where the Constitution has just been adopted. 1244:, reconstructed from oral tradition in 1988 by 682:codified their laws. One of the first of these 193:, used for regulations and orders, such as the 6647:"Read about "Rights of debtors" on Constitute" 6322:"Read about "Right of petition" on Constitute" 6019:"Read about "Duty to pay taxes" on Constitute" 4749:Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics 3751:systems, Cabinet Ministers are accountable to 2065:the remedies for the abuse of such authority. 1974:, which saw the division of power between the 1869:and Latin America, promulgated and drafted by 1550:, with each sitting for at least five months. 1397:A painting depicting George Washington at the 136:. Changes to constitutions frequently require 9268: 8732: 8153: 8079:Autonomous types of first-tier administration 7007: 6830:"Read about "Media commission" on Constitute" 6547:"Read about "Right to privacy" on Constitute" 4160:What Can We Learn from Written Constitutions? 447:in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known 5965:. 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The king also cherished other 1478:, the written constitution, and 1013:The Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles 870:Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 427:shows him receiving the laws of 62:is the aggregate of fundamental 10415:History of the legal profession 8024:Social and political philosophy 6679:L'Ago e Il Filo Edizione Online 6614: 6589: 6564: 6539: 6514: 6489: 6464: 6439: 6414: 6389: 6364: 6339: 6314: 6289: 6264: 6239: 6186: 6161: 6136: 6111: 6086: 6061: 6036: 6011: 5979: 5901: 5856: 5831: 5806: 5791: 5727: 5694: 5668: 5649: 5628: 5607: 5593: 5572: 5560: 5547: 5538: 5532:"Constitution Act, 1982, s. 60" 5524: 5489: 5422: 5397: 5345: 5324: 5292:May second oldest constitution. 5253: 5223: 5120:constitution (politics and law) 5113: 5097: 5073: 5061: 5044: 5022: 4941: 4917: 4905: 4884: 4865: 4843: 4814: 4801: 4788: 4764: 4739: 4703: 4667: 4530: 4491: 4465: 4406: 4352:"Conceptualizing Constitutions" 3983:under which the laws passed by 3785:, a judicial oversight body, a 3182:60% + 60% + >50% (optional) 3067:Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2734:Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 2678:, thus is partially unwritten. 2523:by a court, and struck down as 2483: 2309:needs additional citations for 2214:or discuss these issues on the 2186: 2022:Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982 1910:Portuguese Constitution of 1822 1365:, the oral constitution of the 1261:in Nuremberg headed by Emperor 1087:Душанов Законик/Dušanov Zakonik 902:; it became the law for all of 864:(Law of Hywel) was codified by 8369:Ministry of trade and industry 7860:Political history of the world 6983: 5498:Scandinavian Political Studies 5002:, Greenwood Publishing Group, 4570:Ginsburg, Tom; Melton, James. 4379: 4343: 4318: 4228: 4204: 4186:New Oxford American Dictionary 4177: 4114:List of national constitutions 3769:Other independent institutions 1859:1811 Constitution of Venezuela 1810:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1709:Zaporozhian-Ukrainian Republic 1415:Lord High Chancellor of Sweden 1017:Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian 787:written in 604, reportedly by 784:Seventeen-article constitution 523:codified the oral laws of the 1: 9016:Needle and syringe programmes 8870:Universal access to education 8523:Ministry of religious affairs 5675:The Paradox of Self-Amendment 5166:Bäcklin, Martin, ed. 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(1997). 4028:Constitutional court 3965:constitutional court 3939:Constitutional court 3895:Facade constitutions 3783:electoral commission 3706:Baron de Montesquieu 3700:Separation of powers 3694:Separation of powers 3680:renounce citizenship 3658:Right to information 3650:personal development 3610:Freedom of the press 3557:Constitutional right 3529:India's constitution 3296:>50% + >50% + 3277:75% + 75% + >50% 3272:Poland (some cases) 3269:+ >50% + >50% 3255:Antigua and Barbuda 3117:>50% + >50% + 2726:Basic Laws of Israel 2710:written constitution 2699:Proclamation of 1763 2619:Basic Laws of Israel 2533:constituent assembly 2529:amend a constitution 2379:Russian Constitution 2318:improve this article 1941:Constitution of 1824 1756:separation of powers 1667:Age of Enlightenment 1655:the new Constitution 1644:St. John's Cathedral 1502:was defeated in the 1476:separation of powers 1456:English Protectorate 1377:Modern constitutions 1327:Giudicato of Arborea 1223:Nueva Planta decrees 1215:Usatges of Barcelona 1069:Corpus Iuris Civilis 981:St. Sava's Nomocanon 915:Charter of Liberties 913:proclamation of the 890:Grand Prince of Kiev 676:Western Roman Empire 635:Leo III the Isaurian 490:code of Lipit-Ishtar 124:that establishes an 91:written constitution 70:that constitute the 50:Constitution of the 10340:Election commission 10052:Expressive function 9581:Landlord–tenant law 9480:Consumer protection 9204:Public viewing area 8973:Public water system 8961:Municipal broadband 8918:Public broadcasting 8528:Ministry of science 8486:Ministry of justice 8479:Ministry of housing 8440:Ministry of culture 8354:Ministry of finance 8294:Ministry of defence 8113:Forms of government 8046:Conservatism navbox 7651:Legislative council 7476:National healthcare 7350:Christian democracy 7272:Presidential system 7127:Countries by system 6958:Portal:Constitution 4651:. 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