CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Constitutional Law is the study of foundational laws that govern the scope of powers and authority of various bodies in relation to the creation and execution of other laws by a government. A constitution binds a government or governments, limiting the contexts in which rules may be created, interpreted and force may be applied. Constitutions may reference various bodies, including organizations, associations, stateless peoples and nation-states.

Most commonly constitutional law is the law of these foundational laws, customs, and constitutional conventions in regard to nation-states. Not all nation-states have constitutions, though all such states have a jus commune, or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules, that may be customary law, oral law and written law that apply in the various jurisdictions of such state. Of those nation-states that do have constitutions, not all are considered strictly written constitutions, as the laws that govern such issues may not be consolidated into one single constitution document or instrument. The constitutional law may be a matter of interpreting a variety of text which may also be informed by history, custom and unwritten constitutional conventions . Compare, for example, the written Constitution of the United States with British constitutional law, which arises from multiple sources including the Magna Carta, the common law, and other customary sources. In some countries the constitution is known as the Basic Law.

Constitutional laws may often be considered second order rulemaking or rules about making rules. Generally speaking constitutions may be of a federal type (see: federal state), in which several levels of government coexist with exclusive or shared areas of jurisdiction over lawmaking, application and enforcement. Two example of these kinds of contitutions are the United States and the European Union. Constitutional laws may also be of a unitary type (see: unitary state) where the powers of government rest in one central administration and legislature, though in unitary constitutional states, they is often a delegation of power or authority to local or municipal authorities, however the central legislature retains the right to recall its authority at anytime.

Other types of constitutional law also exist, such as confederations, in which a group of nation-states each with its own sovereignty create a common body to deal with certain common issues in which limited powers are transferred to the confederation authority, common in custom unions, this was also the first form of government created by the thirteen colonies after the American Revolution in the Articles of Confederation.

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Commercial Usage: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Domain	Title
Books	Constitutional Law : Cases and Materials (reference) Constitutional Law and Politics, Volume 2: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Fifth Edition (reference) Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course (reference) Constitutional Law, 20th Edition (Emanuel Law Outlines) (reference) High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law (Keyed to Chemerinsky) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Constitutional Law And Liberty (reference) East European Case Reporter Of Constitutional Law (reference) International Journal Of Constitutional Law (reference) State Constitutional Law Bulletin (reference) University Of Pennsylvania Journal Of Constitutional Law (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Finland	The Convention is presently being discussed by the Finnish parliamentary committee for constitutional law. (references)
	Angola	The Constitutional Law of 1992 establishes the broad outlines of government structure and delineates the rights and duties of citizens. (references)
	France	Judicial--Court of Cassation (civil and criminal law), Council of State (administrative court), Constitutional Council (constitutional law). (references)
Human Rights	Comoros	The High Council, made up of four members appointed by the President, three members elected by the Federal Assembly, and a member of each island council, also serves as the High Court of the Republic and rules on cases of Constitutional law. (references)
Minorities	Croatia	Some observers, including ethnic Serb leaders, criticized the apparent haste and secrecy with which the constitutional law was passed. (references)
	Croatia	Government officials indicated that further amendments on minorities and local self-government would complement the Constitutional law; however, these amendments were not passed by year's end. (references)
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Modern Translation: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Language		Translations for "CONSTITUTIONAL LAW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		دس�'تور. (various references)

Danish		forfatningsret. (various references)

Dutch		constitutioneel recht. (various references)

French		loi de révision constitutionnelle (constitution act), loi constitutionnelle (constitution, constitution act), droit constitutionnel. (various references)

German		staatsrecht (national law). (various references)

Greek		συνταγματικό δίκαιο. (various references)

Italian		diritto costituzionale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		憲法学者 (constitutional scholar, expert in constitutional law). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		け�"ぽうがくしゃ (constitutional scholar, expert in constitutional law). (various references)

Pig Latin		onstitutionalcay awlay

Portuguese		direito constitucional. (various references)

Spanish		derecho constitucional. (various references)
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Anagrams: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

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	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-o-s-t-t-t-u-w"
	-3 letters: constitutional.
	-4 letters: anticolonials, cantillations.
	-5 letters: anticolonial, cantillation, constitution, consultation, inoculations, inosculation, installation.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
William H. Taft	1909-1913	Of course, the mere adoption of a constitutional law is only one step in the right direction.
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constitutional law	112
constitutional law outline	6
constitutional law us	3
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case constitutional law	2
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

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