3. WHY DO WE NEED
CONSITUTION?
To state how
your association
is to be
structured
To detail the
safeguards
needed to
ensure that it
operates fairly
on behalf of
the whole
community
As a basic
requirement to
apply for
funding
5. 1) It serves as a supreme or
fundamental law
• Charter that
individual citizens and parts of
the government together as one
• The ; the law other laws
must abide by
by government officials
6. 2) Establishes the basic framework and
underlying principles of the government
of
the system of government, and to
the different department or branches,
by
which the government is founded
the
rights of the citizens against the powers of
the state
9. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Written constitution
• One which has been given
definitive written form at
particular time, usually by a
specially constituted authority called
a “constitutional convention”
10. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Unwritten Constitution
• One which is entirely the product of
political evolution, consisting largely of a
mass of customs, usages and judicial
decisions together with a smaller body of
statutory enactments of fundamental
character, usually bearing different
dates.
17. Cumulative or Evolved
One which is a product of long growth or
a long period of development
originating in customs, traditions, judicial
decisions, etc., rather than from a deliberate
and formal enactment.
20. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Rigid or Inelastic
Constitution
• One regarded as a document of “special
sanctity” which cannot be modified in
the same manner as other laws except by
some special machinery, more
burdensome than the ordinary legislative
process.
22. Flexible or elastic
• One which possesses no higher legal
authority than ordinary laws and which
may be altered or amended in the same way
as other laws.
23. Exercise
• Israel’s constitution is an accumulated body of
documents and precedents, some of which date back to
biblical times. Is the constitution of Israel enacted or
evolved? Why?
• In Sweden, constitutional amendments must be passed
by two successive legislatures, with a general election in
between. As to amendment, is their constitution rigid or
flexible? Why?
• The British Constitution consists of some laws passed
by the Parliament and court decisions and no single
document has been codified as constitution to set forth
the basic principles of the organization of power. As to
form, is the British Constitution written or unwritten?
Why?
