All you need to know about constitutions

2. CONSTITUTION IS DEFINED AS:
• A constitution is "the body of those
written or unwritten
fundamental laws which regulate the most
important rights of the
higher magistrates and the most
important essential privileges
of the subjects."

3. Nature And
purpose of a
constitution

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6. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
A Constitution may be classified
into 2 according to Sir Henry Maine

7. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
 Historical and Revolutionary
Those constitutions which
develop gradually according
to the
experiences, customs, and
traditions of the people.

8. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Those constitutions which
are founded on speculative
assumptions
remote from the experiences
of the people
 A Priori

9. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
ACCORDING TO
FORM

10. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
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ACCORDING TO
FORM

11. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Written constitution
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12. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Unwritten Constitution
• An unwritten constitution is one in which
most of the principles of the government
have never been enacted in the form of
laws. It consists of customs, conventions,
traditions, and some written laws bearing
different dates. It is unsystematic, indefinite
and un-precise. Such a constitution is not
the result of conscious and deliberate
efforts of the people.

13. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION

14. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
ACCORDING TO
MANNER OF
AMENDMENT

15. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
CONVENTIONAL OR
ENACTED
RIGID
ACCORDING TO
AMENDMENT

16. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Convention or Enacted Constitution
• One is enacted by a constitution
assembly or granted by monarch of
his subject

17. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION

18. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Rigid Constitution
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