Constitution

All you need to know about constitutions

1. CONSTITUTION IS DEFINED AS: A constitution is " the body of those written or unwritten fundamental laws which regulate the most important rights of the higher magistrates and the most important essential privileges of the subjects."

2. Nature And purpose of a constitution

3. 1) It serves as a supreme or fundamental law It is the charter that created a government It is binding all individual citizens and parts of the government together as one It is the ultimate law; the law other laws must abide by It is the test of legality by government officials

4. 2) Establishes the basic framework and underlying principles of the government Prescribes the permanent framework of the system of government, and assigns to the different department or branches, their respective powers and duties To establish certain basic principles by which the government is founded Designed to preserve and protect the rights of the citizens against the powers of the state

5. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION A Constitution may be classified into 2 according to Sir Henry Maine

6. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION Historical and Revolutionary Those constitutions which develop gradually according to the  experiences, customs, and traditions of the people.

7. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION Those constitutions which are founded on speculative assumptions remote from the experiences of the people A Priori

8. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION ACCORDING TO FORM

9. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION WRITTEN CONSTITUTION UNWRITTEN CONSITUTION ACCORDING TO FORM

10. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION Written constitution A written constitution is a formal document defining the nature of the constitutional settlement, the rules that govern the political system and the rights of citizens and governments in a codified form . A constitution is the supreme law of the land which must serve as the basis of the acts of all the different branches and officials in the government.

11. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION Unwritten Constitution An unwritten constitution is one in which most of the principles of the government have never been enacted in the form of laws. It consists of customs, conventions, traditions, and some written laws bearing different dates. It is unsystematic, indefinite and un-precise. Such a constitution is not the result of conscious and deliberate efforts of the people.

12. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION

13. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION ACCORDING TO MANNER OF AMENDMENT

14. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION CONVENTIONAL OR ENACTED RIGID ACCORDING TO AMENDMENT

15. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION Convention or Enacted Constitution One is enacted by a constitution assembly or granted by monarch of his subject

16. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION

17. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION Rigid Constitution One regarded as a document of “special sanctity” which cannot be modified in the same manner as other laws except by some special machinery, more burdensome than the ordinary legislative process. Whereas a flexible constitution is one which can be altered or amended in the same way to other laws

18. Constitution of the Philippines Officially known as the “1987 Constitution of the Philippines” Features: Reinstitution of a democratic government Separation of church and state Sovereignty of the people Renunciation of war as a national policy Supremacy of civilian authority over the military Separation of powers

19. Parts of the Philippine constitution Preamble Describes the purpose of the document and government Articles Establish how the government is structured and how the Constitution can be changed. There are seven articles . Amendments Changes to the Constitution; the first ten are called the Bill of Rights.

20. Preamble of the Philippine Constitution “We , the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society, and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution .”