Intro

Question 1

What is a constitution?

Answer 1

A constitution is a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according which a state or other organisation is acknowledged to be governed.

Question 2

Different constitutions

Answer 2

Some constitutions are written in a single document, such as the US, Canada and France; and others are unwritten instead formed from a collection of legal and non legal sources, such as those in the UK, Israel and New Zealand

Question 3

Who identified the four basic roles of a constitution?

Answer 3

Professor Feldman

Question 4

What were Professor Feldman’s four basic roles of a constitution?

Answer 4

1 - it establishes the institutions and grants them and their members the power to carry out their missions
2 - it puts checks and balances in place to limit the abuse of power
3 - it provides legitimacy for the use of power
4 - it provides a certain degree of flexibility to allow the state to evolve overtime