This document defines and describes different types of constitutions. It explains that a constitution serves as the fundamental law that structures a government and protects citizens' rights. Constitutions can be written or unwritten, enacted by a group or evolved over time, and more or less difficult to amend. Written constitutions explicitly lay out rules, while unwritten ones rely more on tradition. Enacted constitutions are deliberately created while evolved ones develop gradually. Rigid constitutions have stringent amendment procedures, whereas flexible ones can be modified like ordinary laws.

1. Constitution

2. CONSTITUTION IS DEFINED AS:

3. WHY DO WE NEED
CONSITUTION?
To state how
your association
is to be
structured
To detail the
safeguards
needed to
ensure that it
operates fairly
on behalf of
the whole
community
As a basic
requirement to
apply for
funding

4. Nature and
Purpose of a
Constitution

5. 1) It serves as a supreme or
fundamental law
• Charter that
individual citizens and parts of
the government together as one
• The ; the law other laws
must abide by
by government officials

6. 2) Establishes the basic framework and
underlying principles of the government
of
the system of government, and to
the different department or branches,
by
which the government is founded
the
rights of the citizens against the powers of
the state

7. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
ACCORDING TO
FORM

8. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
WRITTEN
CONSTITUTION
UNWRITTEN
CONSITUTION

9. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Written constitution
• One which has been given
definitive written form at
particular time, usually by a
specially constituted authority called
a “constitutional convention”

10. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Unwritten Constitution
• One which is entirely the product of
political evolution, consisting largely of a
mass of customs, usages and judicial
decisions together with a smaller body of
statutory enactments of fundamental
character, usually bearing different
dates.

11. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION

12. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Pros and cons of a written constitution

13. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
ACCORDING TO
THEIR ORIGIN

14. KINDS
Conventional or Enacted
Cumulative or Evolved

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

16. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Japanese Constitution

17. Cumulative or Evolved
One which is a product of long growth or
a long period of development
originating in customs, traditions, judicial
decisions, etc., rather than from a deliberate
and formal enactment.

18. KINDS OF
CONSTITUTION
ACCORDING TO
MANNER OF
AMENDMENT

19. Kinds
•Rigid or inelastic
•Flexible or elastic

20. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Rigid or Inelastic
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.

21. KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
Constitution Of the United States of America

22. Flexible or elastic
• One which possesses no higher legal
authority than ordinary laws and which
may be altered or amended in the same way
as other laws.

23. Exercise
• Israel’s constitution is an accumulated body of
documents and precedents, some of which date back to
biblical times. Is the constitution of Israel enacted or
evolved? Why?
• In Sweden, constitutional amendments must be passed
by two successive legislatures, with a general election in
between. As to amendment, is their constitution rigid or
flexible? Why?
• The British Constitution consists of some laws passed
by the Parliament and court decisions and no single
document has been codified as constitution to set forth
the basic principles of the organization of power. As to
form, is the British Constitution written or unwritten?
Why?