write briefly about types od Constitution.
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Types of Constitution:
Broadly speaking, constitution can be of:
Two types based on the nature of document:
• Written: Written in the form of a book or a series of documents combined in the form of a book which is consciously framed and enacted. It is formulated and enacted by a constituent assembly or a council or a legislature whose members are elected by the people for whom the constitution is being written.
• For Example: Indian Constitution (the longest written constitution), Constitution of America etc.
• Unwritten: It is not committed of systematic writing by a particular constituent assembly, rather, evolved or developed due to a number of customs, usages, parliamentary acts and traditions.
• For example, the British constitution has evolved on the basis of all these over a period of many centuries.
Two types based on the nature of polity:
• Unitary: Establishes single authority without dividing powers among separate entities. However, there may be other legislative and executive authorities under a unitary constitution but they enjoy only delegated powers and not constitutionally granted powers.
• For Example: British Constitution which only recognizes the British Parliament and the central government without having any state type legislatures or government.
• Federal: It shares powers between two distinct entities namely, federal or the union government and the state governments without having inferior to each other as both derive its powers directly from the constitution.
• Countries with large population, geographical size, social, cultural and linguistic diversities generally adopt federal form of constitution to allow autonomy of governance to the constituent states. For example, the US, Canadian, Australian Constitutions are federal constitutions.
Broadly speaking, constitution can be of:
Two types based on the nature of document:
• Written: Written in the form of a book or a series of documents combined in the form of a book which is consciously framed and enacted. It is formulated and enacted by a constituent assembly or a council or a legislature whose members are elected by the people for whom the constitution is being written.
• For Example: Indian Constitution (the longest written constitution), Constitution of America etc.
• Unwritten: It is not committed of systematic writing by a particular constituent assembly, rather, evolved or developed due to a number of customs, usages, parliamentary acts and traditions.
• For example, the British constitution has evolved on the basis of all these over a period of many centuries.
Two types based on the nature of polity:
• Unitary: Establishes single authority without dividing powers among separate entities. However, there may be other legislative and executive authorities under a unitary constitution but they enjoy only delegated powers and not constitutionally granted powers.
• For Example: British Constitution which only recognizes the British Parliament and the central government without having any state type legislatures or government.
• Federal: It shares powers between two distinct entities namely, federal or the union government and the state governments without having inferior to each other as both derive its powers directly from the constitution.
• Countries with large population, geographical size, social, cultural and linguistic diversities generally adopt federal form of constitution to allow autonomy of governance to the constituent states. For example, the US, Canadian, Australian Constitutions are federal constitutions.
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