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Dictionary definition: constitutional law (UK)
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constitutional law (UK)
The set of rules that define the distribution of governmental power; the study of those rules. The term is not to be found defined in a statute book and it has not been the subject of exact judicial definition in any case decided by the courts. No special pre-eminence is given to constitutional law largely due to the absence of a written
constitution
for the United Kingdom. John Austin, whose opinion on sovereignty in English law has been influential, identified constitutional law as extremely simple ‘for it merely determines the person who shall bear the sovereignty’. In modern usage this view is too narrow. The law relating to Parliament, the ...
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Article: Constitutional Law.
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