what is the meaning of constitutional law?
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Constitutional law is the study of foundational laws that govern the scope of powers and authority of various bodies in relation to the creation and execution of other laws by a government. A constitution binds a government or governments, limiting the contexts in which rules may be created, interpreted and force may be applied. Constitutions may reference various bodies, including organizations, associations, stateless peoples and nation-states.\n\nMost commonly constitutional law is the law of these foundational laws, customs, and constitution a conventions in regard to nation-states. Not all nation-states have 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, that may be customary law, oral law and written law that apply in the various jurisdictions of such state. Of those nation-states that do have constitutions, not all are considered strictly written constitutions, as the laws that govern such issues may not be consolidated into one single constitution document or instrument. The constitutional law may be the fact of interpreting a variety of text which may also be informed by history, custom and unwritten constitutional conventions . Compare, for example, the written Constitution of the United States with British constitutional law, which arises from multiple sources including Magna Carta, the common law, and other customary sources. In some countries, the constitution is known as the Basic Law.\n\nConstitutional laws may often be considered second order rulemaking or rules about making rules of exercise power. One of the key tasks of constitutions within this context is to indicate hierarchies and relationships of power. Thus, for example, in the case of a unitary state, the Constitution will vest ulitimate authority in one central administration and legislature, and judiciary, though there is often a delegation of power or authority to local or municipal authorities. Whereas when a constitution establishes a federal state, it will identify the several levels of government coexisting with exclusive or shared areas of jurisdiction over lawmaking, application and enforcement.
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The constitution provides a legal foundation for our\nlaws and our cival discourse. Disputes and questions regarding\nall manner of civall and criminal conduct have a final\narbiture with the Supreme court and the federal and state courts.
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a constitutional democracy is governed by a set body of laws which usually do not change, and require a supermajority to alter, and in some cases, judicial review. A majority or even a supermajority cannot usurp the laws of the land, because the court can overrule.\n\nA parliamentary democracy is ruled by simple majority, and the votes of such a majority is then binding law. A parliament is like our house of representatives. If a parliament voted to take away all of your rights, it could do so, because no law overrides thier vote. Essentially, a parliament is mob rule, and is the definition of dictatorship or oligarchy.
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Definitions of law on the Web:\n\nlegal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping" \nthe collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" \na generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" \na rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society \nthe learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" \npolice: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" \njurisprudence: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nLaw (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow the established rules of conduct. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law\n\nLAW may stand for: *LAW stands for Lightweight Anti-tank Weapon. Examples of such weapons are M72 LAW (US Army) and LAW 80 (British Army)*LAW is a law society called Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights*LAW is also the League of American Wheelmen. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAW\n\nThe M72 LAAW (Light Anti-Armor Weapon) sometimes knowns as a LAW, is a portable one-shot 66 mm anti-tank weapon, made in United States by Talley Defense Systems. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAW_(weapon)\n\nWhile Law is a part of society, the academic study of law, both as a science, that is, jurisprudence, and by students preparing to be lawyers is taught in the United States at specialized postgraduate law schools. In other countries the course of study is different, for example, in England, prospective lawyers simply major in law as an undergraduate, or take a special one year course in law (the Common Professional Exam) after having majored in some other discipline. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_(academic)\n\nThe term law is often used to refer to universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something, to universal properties and relationships between things, or to descriptions that purport to explain these principles and relationships. For example, "physical law"s, or "scientific laws" attempt to describe the fundamental nature of the universe itself. Laws of mathematics and logic describe the nature of rational thought and inference. ...\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_(principle)\n\nA statement, usually mathematical, which describes some physical phenomena. Compare: hypothesis and theory.\nwww.physlink.com/Reference/Glossary.cfm\n\nThe combination of those rules and principles of conduct promulgated by legislative authority, derived from court decisions and established by local custom.\ncourts.delaware.gov/How%20To/court%20proceedings/\n\nThe rules governing our daily lives.\nwww.dmh.cahwnet.gov/Admin/regulations/glossary.asp\n\nThese conditions and all other express terms of contract shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England.\nwww.petewilkins.net/terms-and-conditions/index.asp\n\nThis Contract shall be governed by English Law and subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.\nwww.citrusproduction.co.uk/terms_suppliers.htm\n\nThe rules of conduct established and enforced by authority, legislation or custom of a given community, state or other group; any one of such rules.\nwww.faststart.state.ri.us/bfs_glossary.html\n\nAll disputes arising out of or in connection with this contract shall be determined and governed by
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It measures it's legality with constitutional protections under the bill of rights/constitutional ammendments, Acts of Congress, prior federal court decisions, etc.  Example....a state passes a law that says you have to be a Presbyterian to vote violates the 1st ammendment.  A law that charges a poll tax to vote is unconstitutional would be over ruled because there is a specific ammendment prohibiting poll taxes.  Etc.  Federal Law and Federal Courts trump state and local law/courts.
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anything that is in the constitution..........
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constitutional monarchy
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The constitution is considered "the highest law in the land."  It contains the Preamble, which is basically a statement of what the US is all about; the Articles, which give the basic structure of the government and the powers that each branch of government has, and the rules for amending the constitution; and the Amendments, which cover all kinds of issues regarding citizenship, rights of citizens, and more stuff about the structure of the government and how it gets paid.
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per·ju·ry    (pûrj-r) KEY  \n\nNOUN: pl. per·ju·ries \n1.) Law:  The deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony under oath. \n2.) The breach of an oath or promise. \n\nHmmmmmmm... Me thinks this duth sound familiar, regarding current events..
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The law is a constitution which regulates the do's and don'ts in a society and the people who are to obey this rules and regulation are to be aware of such laws. Every society has its own laws like the church, States, Country, Tradition etc. These various groups set out laws to guide the conduct of the people to prevent them from going astray. It's some how related to Godly manner in as much as it guides the moral standards of the people.
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means that the constitution has been changed.  For example the drinking of alcohol used to be illegal by the Prohibition Act.  But the Constititution was "amended" (21st Amendment) to make the consumption of alcohol legal again
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It depends on what you mean by "actually."\n\nIn a pragmatic sense, whatever the U.S. Supreme Court says is constitutional is "actually" constitutional.\n\nPerhaps you mean, "Should it be constitutional?"  Well, obviously there are arguments on both sides -- and they were raised in Marbury v. Madison -- but I would have to agree with the Supreme Court:  What would REALLY throw off the balance of powers is if there were no checks and balances to prevent Congress from passing unconstitutional laws.\n\nFinally, perhaps you mean, "Was this what the Framers intended?"  Again, this was argued in Marbury v. Madison.  Probably the answer would be that some did, and some didn't.  However, what is the point of writing a constitution that limits the powers of Congress if there's no way to enforce the limitations?
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amendments,  \n\nfrom congress and or the supreme court
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The Constitution of the United Kingdom is an area of uncodified law, consisting of both written and unwritten sources. There is no technical difference between ordinary statutes and law considered "constitutional law". Therefore the Parliament of the United Kingdom can perform "constitutional reform" simply by passing Acts of Parliament and thus has the power to change or abolish any written or unwritten element of the constitution. The constitution is based on the concept of all sovereignty ultimately belonging to Parliament (Parliamentary sovereignty), so the concept of entrenchment cannot exist. The lack of a central written constitutional document explaining the fundamental principles of the state and relationship between its institutions and between the people leads some constitutionalists to regard the United Kingdom as having "no (formal) constitution". The phrase "unwritten constitution" is sometimes used, despite the fact that the UK constitution incorporates many written sources, statutory law being considered the most important source of the constitution. But the case remains that the constitution relies far more on unwritten constitutional conventions than virtually every other liberal democratic constitution.\n\nThe informal nature of the constitution has been conducive to a lack of the concept of "constitution government" or "constitutionalism" in the United Kingdom. The "government" (i.e. the executive) is drawn from the legislature, Parliament, since the UK has a Parliamentary system of government. The doctrine of "limited government", central in all written constitutions, is not prominent in the UK constitution, nor is separation of powers or formal "checks and balances". Since the government is said to be "fused" with Parliament, and virtually every government has a majority, governments have no formal restraint on their legislative power. This is only broken if government Members of Parliament vote against a government bill, which due to a strong whip system had, until 2005, not occurred since 1986. The phrase elective dictatorship was introduced in 1976 to highlight the enormous potential power of government afforded by the constitution. In practice, some principles and elements of the constitution, such as the rule of law, are so ancient and ingrained in the UK's political culture that they would be extremely difficult to abolish. Parliamentary sovereignty and of the rule of law have been widely considered the most important principles of the constitution since the nineteenth century, and attempts to substantially circumvent them would likely be met with backlash by the electorate or monarch.\n\nSince entrenched "constitutional law" does not exist, the UK constitution is flexible, as opposed to rigid constitutions such as the Constitution of the United States. It is often spoken of as being "organic" by political scientists, that is, it has been "evolving" over time from its medieval origins. In theory, its flexibility makes it responsive to political and social change, especially through political principles expressed in conventions. Despite the tradition of freedom of speech and other rights in the UK, until recently there was no modern statute or document that attempted to codify the rights of citizens in the UK, common law precedents being the main source of "rights". This has been remedied in recent years, with the incorporation of some important written sources, such as European Union law and the European Convention on Human Rights, which formally grants citizens specific negative rights that were previously lacking in the legal system. These sources are enacted in the European Communities Act 1972 and Human Rights Act 1998, respectively. Some argue that these developments, and the Labour government's reforms from 1997, have improved the constitution, des
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If this is for an essay and you have time for research then you use a treatise on constitutional law. There are also resources online.\n\nThe US Supreme Court rules on the federal constitution. State supreme courts (in NYS the Court of Appeals -- their supreme court is the lowest court of general jurisdiction, following English practice) rule on state constitutions. Here's an example where a state law on double jeopardy was stricter than the federal rule: http://www.uniset.ca/naty/maternity/192P2d449.htm (in federal practice, two different sovereigns can prosecute the same offense, California law (only) is different).\n\nCiting a US Supreme Court case is easy. You go to http://www.lexisone.com (free registration required) or to http://justia.us (uses Google searching rules which may be more familiar to you) and you look for what you want -- key words, etc. Supreme Court cases are cited in the pattern "Smith v. Jones, 123 U.S. 456 (19XX)".\n\nMost Supreme Court constitutional law cases are famous: Roe v. Wade (abortion), Loving v. Viriginia (miscegenation), Lawrence v. Texas (sodomy), Miranda v. Arizona (right to warnings upon arrest), Gideon v. Wainwright (right to counsel). And so on.
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In the U.S. the supreme court is tasked with interpreting the constitution.  The supreme court has the power to find laws written the legislature unconstitutional.
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Come from Constitution