Law 2101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Legal Certainty
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Constitutional law: introduction, law is closely connected to the state. The state itself is regulated by the law: it was the increasingly organized state that succeeded in imposing its law upon its citizens. States started to monopolize violence and the suppression of crimes, and to prosecute crimes as offenses against the state. States reduced the rates of violence between individual people, clans and tribes. States promoted pacification, improved legal certainty : constitutional law is the branch of law that regulates the state. It contains rules on the organization of a state, on the powers that state organs possess, and on the relations between these organs (institutional law) It provides fundamental rights that protect the legal position of the individual against the state (human rights law, judicial review and administrative law: the primary role and rationale of states is to provide peace, order and stability.
