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constitutional lawThat part of the law relating to the constitution. It sets out the rules defining the powers, limits, and rights of government. In countries without a written constitution, such as the United Kingdom, constitutional law is a mixture of legislation, judicial precedent, and accepted conventional behaviour. Agencies that maintain constitutional law include, in Britain, the law courts and House of Lords; and, in the USA, the Supreme Court. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Law students who want a quick and accessible road map to the Court's landmark decisions before embarking on a semester of Con Law could do worse than to look at this book, together with Rosen's 2006 book about the Court, The Most Democratic Branch. The next year, when, as solicitor general, he fired the independent prosecutor Archibald Cox in order to protect Richard Nixon from the Watergate scandal, we students watched the reports on live television from the student lounge in despair - but not, for those of us who had sat in that con law seminar, in shock. Miers took herself out not because she flunked the Con Law exam that Senator Arlen Specter was administering but because she flunked the loyalty oath that the anti-abortion zealots were administering. |
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