From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024
- Subject(s):
- Supremacy — Form and substance of constitution — Legitimacy — Rule of law — Unwritten constitutions — Judicial review — Preliminary procedures of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Judicial power
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
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1Israel has no single official document known as ‘the Constitution’, and for nearly half a century, its legal structure was based on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. In fact though, since the 1990s, Israel may be considered a constitutional democracy. The supreme norms are expressed in its basic laws; the powers of the legislature are limited and laws are subject to judicial review. This situation is the result of the enactment of two basic laws dealing with human rights in 1992 and of a judicial decision of monumental significance in 1995, the Mizrahi...
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