Why have a constitution ?
Constituional and Administrative law
Public law
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- Created by: Tiffany
- Created on: 23-03-14 19:21
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- Why have a constitution ?
- a result of cataclysmic events
- Military defeat
- A political Crisis
- A popular revolution
- Declaration of indepence
- Countries
- USA
- 1787
- America's declaration of independence from Colonial ruler Britain
- 1787
- France
- 1791
- The French revolution
- 1958
- Collapse of the French Fourth Republic
- 1791
- Germany
- 1949
- Defeat in World War II
- Nazi Rule
- 1949
- Russia
- 1993
- National Economic Crisis
- 1993
- USA
- Fresh New Start for the Country in question
- Political reasoning
- Legal Reasoning
- Entrenchment
- Protection of the higher laws set out in the constitution
- Bundesverfassungsgericht
- The act was invalid as it was found to be incompatible with the Basic Law under the German Constituion
- national identity
- cultural identity
- More than just a legal document
- a result of cataclysmic events
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