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Constitutional Foundations - Coggle Diagram
Constitutional Foundations
What is a constitution?
Why do they exist?
Different forms of constitutions
'Written'
'Unwritten' - 'uncodified'
Political versus Legal constitutions
What do they contain?
Branches of the state
Citizens' rights?
Statement of where power lies - enable and disable power
Amendments?
Sub-national entities?
Supra-national entities?
Legal structure of the state
Type of governance
Head of state - monarch or republic?
Constitutional Court?
Secular or religious?
The UK Constitution
Where is it?
'Sources'
Statutes
Case law
Constitutional Conventions
Other sources
'Doctrines/Principles'
Separation of Powers
Rule of Law
Parliamentary Supremacy