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The states have the general power to make laws except in the few areas where the constitution grants the Commonwealth (the federal level of government) exclusive powers. [205] [206] The Commonwealth can only make laws on topics listed in the constitution but its laws prevail over those of the states to the extent of any inconsistency.
It has a median age of roughly 28 years, with 26% of the total population aged 14 or younger, [246] and merely 6% aged 65 and above as of 2023. [247] Bangladesh is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, as Bengalis form 99% of the population. [6]
John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ()) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
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.
In the United States, feral and free-ranging domestic cats kill an estimated 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. [149] In Australia, one study found feral cats to kill 466 million reptiles per year. More than 258 reptile species were identified as being predated by cats. [208]
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 ...