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A "constitution" is simply those laws which constitute the body politic, from statute, case law and convention. The fundamental constitutional principle, inspired by John Locke , holds that the individual can do anything except that which is forbidden by law , and the state may do nothing except that which is authorised by law.
Pakistan, [e] officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, [f] is a country in South Asia.It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, [c] having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023.
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. [13] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands'), is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of ...
[13]: 200–202 In the colonies, however, the idea had developed that the British Constitution recognized certain fundamental rights that no government could violate, including Parliament. [ 13 ] : 180–182 After the Townshend Acts, some essayists questioned whether Parliament had any legitimate jurisdiction in the colonies. [ 14 ]
A female is called a queen [13] Some sources wrote that queen refers to unspayed cats that are in an estrous cycle. [14] (or sometimes a molly, [15] if spayed). A juvenile cat is referred to as a kitten. In Early Modern English, that was interchangeable with the now-obsolete word catling. [16]
Iran, [a] [b] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) [c] and also known as Persia, [d] is a country in West Asia.It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
In 2010, spending on healthcare accounted for 6.84% of the country's GDP. In 2008, there were 6.96 physicians and 13.92 nurses per 10,000 inhabitants. [231] The life expectancy at birth was 68.49 years in 2010, or 65.13 years for males and 72.01 years for females. [232] This is down from a peak life expectancy of 71.31 years in 1996. [233]