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Constitutional Law: For Other Uses, See

Constitutional law defines the structure and roles of government entities like the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. It also establishes the basic rights of citizens. Constitutional law deals with fundamental principles that either grant powers to the government, like taxation, or place limits on government power, like prohibiting unlawful arrest. Most nations base their constitutional law on a ratified founding document, though some like the UK rely more on unwritten constitutional conventions.

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Constitutional Law: For Other Uses, See

Constitutional law defines the structure and roles of government entities like the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. It also establishes the basic rights of citizens. Constitutional law deals with fundamental principles that either grant powers to the government, like taxation, or place limits on government power, like prohibiting unlawful arrest. Most nations base their constitutional law on a ratified founding document, though some like the UK rely more on unwritten constitutional conventions.

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Constitutional law

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For other uses, see Constitutional law (disambiguation).

The principles from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen still have constitutional
importance
Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different
entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as
well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United
States and Canada, the relationship between the central government and state, provincial, or
territorial governments.
Not all nation states have codified 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. These may
include customary law, conventions, statutory law, judge-made law, or international rules and
norms. Constitutional law deals with the fundamental principles by which the government
exercises its authority. In some instances, these principles grant specific powers to the
government, such as the power to tax and spend for the welfare of the population. Other times,
constitutional principles act to place limits on what the government can do, such as prohibiting
the arrest of an individual without sufficient cause.
In most nations, such as the United States, India, and Singapore, constitutional law is based on
the text of a document ratified at the time the nation came into being. Other constitutions,
notably that of the United Kingdom,[1][2] rely heavily on unwritten rules known as constitutional
conventions; their status within constitutional law varies, and the terms of conventions are in
some cases strongly contested.[3]

Contents

 1State and legal structure


 2Human rights
 3Legislative procedure
 4Study of constitutional law
 5The rule of law
 6The separation of powers
 7See also
 8References
 9External links

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