Understanding Constitutions
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- Understandin Constitutions
- Types of Constitution
- Codified and Uncodified
- Codified
- Enshrined in law
- Created
- Based on the existence of a single authoritative document
- Core principle of the system of government
- Duties
- Powers
- Fuctions
- Statement of citizens' rights
- Core principle of the system of government
- Key Features
- Authoritative
- Highest law
- Binds all political institutions
- Two-tier legal system
- Entrenched
- Difficult to amend or abolish
- Judiciable
- All political bodies are subject to the authority of courts
- Supreme
- Constitutional
- All political bodies are subject to the authority of courts
- Authoritative
- Enshrined in law
- Uncodified
- Made up of customs and traditions
- Organic
- Key Features
- Not judiciable
- Judges can't declare actions as constitutional or unconstitutional
- Not entrenched
- Can be changed
- Parliament can make, unmake and amend any law
- Not authoritative
- Same status as ordinary laws
- Single-tier legal system
- Same status as ordinary laws
- Not judiciable
- Made up of customs and traditions
- No constitution is entirely written
- Not entirely formal rules that are legally enforceable
- Not all documents can define all constitutional practice
- No constitution is entirely unwritten
- Codified
- Unitary and Federal
- Unitary
- The supremacy of government over provincial or local bodies
- The government can create, abolish, strengthen or weaken all institutions
- The supremacy of government over provincial or local bodies
- Federal
- Divide sovereignty between two levels
- Central and Regional possess their own powers
- Divide sovereignty between two levels
- Unitary
- Rigid and Flexible
- Rigid
- Mostly codified constitutions
- Amendment
- Sometimes uncodified constitions
- Principles of parliamentary sovereignty and the constitutional monarchy
- Mostly codified constitutions
- Flexible
- Mostly uncodified constitution
- Sometimes codified constitutions
- Judicial interpretation
- The US Constitution means what the Supreme Court says
- Judicial interpretation
- Rigid
- Codified and Uncodified
- Constitution
- Establish duties, powers and functions
- Regulate relations between institutions
- Define the relationship between the state and the individual
- Types of Constitution
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