Definitions of the term ‘constitution’ abound. According to Dicey, a constitution consists of ‘all rules which directly or indirectly affect the distribution or the exercise of the sovereign power in the state’, including ‘all rules which define the members of the sovereign power, all rules which regulate the relation of such members to each other, or which determine the mode in which the sovereign power, or the members thereof, exercise their authority.’1 For Cooley, a constitution is ‘the body of rules and maxims in accordance with which the powers of...
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