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A codified constitution is a constitution 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, but consists of several different sources, which may be written or unwritten.
Based on English Common Law and Civil law as well as the country's customary law. Lesotho: Based on South African law. An 1884 proclamation by the High Commissioner for Southern Africa applied the law of the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa) to Basutoland (now Lesotho). [48] Louisiana (U.S.)
Modern examples include mainly Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Brunei and one African country, Eswatini. Constitutional monarchy: Also called parliamentary monarchy, the monarch's powers are limited by law or by a formal constitution, [42] [43] usually assigning them to those of the head of state. Many modern developed ...
Constitution of the Comoros; Constitution of Bangladesh; Constitution of Cape Verde; Constitution of Eswatini; Constitution of Kosovo; Constitution of Samoa; Constitution of the Federal Republic of Central America; Constitution of the Greater Republic of Central America; Constitution of the Republic of the Congo; Constitution of the State of Yap
As noted by David Fellman, constitutionalism "should not be taken to mean that if a state has a constitution, it is necessarily committed to the idea of constitutionalism. In a very real sense... every state may be said to have a constitution, since every state has institutions which are at the very least expected to be permanent, and every ...
Aristotle (c. 350 BC) was the first to make a formal distinction between ordinary law and constitutional law, establishing ideas of constitution and constitutionalism, and attempting to classify different forms of constitutional government. The most basic definition he used to describe a constitution in general terms was "the arrangement of the ...
Civil rights and liberties by country (9 C) Emergency laws by country (10 C) Federalism by country (29 C, 35 P) ... United States constitutional law (7 C, 64 P)