Law 2101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Separation Of Powers, Presidential System, Direct Democracy
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The branch of law that regulates the state. Provides fundamental rights that protect that protects the legal position of an individual against the state: human rights, judicial review and administrative law. The constitution ( a central written document)- entrenchment = rigid meaning its hard to change laws in the constitution. Three themes: state power established ; state power constrained ; state power democratised . State power established: in order to be a state recognition by the. Secession is when a part of a state wished to become independent. A state must have enough internal domestic control to prevent this. Sovereignty include internal sovereignty (the capability to exercise internal domestic control) and external sovereignty ( the capability to defend its territory against foreign intrusion). Nation states are inhabited by a nation (people of the same cultural backgrounds, share the same heritage). Eu is not a nation state, has the power from 28 different states.
