ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Meddle, Ultimate Power, Optional Referendum
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Constitutional law: the branch of law that regulates the state. Rules on the organization of the state. Rules on the powers that state organs posses. Rules on the relations between the state organs (institutional law) Fundamental rights that protect the legal position of the individual against the state (human rights, judicial review, administrative law) Uk: flexible constitution case law parliament sovereignty. Customs may also play a role in the internal proceedings of parliaments. Population, territory and effective government (conditions for a state : declaratory theory) recognition however also seems needed (no rule about this though) External sovereignty: states are independent of other states and other states are not authorized to meddle into internal affairs of sovereign state international public law (agreements between states) Nation: a group of people that feels connected because of shared characteristics a feeling of shared past and identity.
