fundamental law
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law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
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All the parliaments could issue regulatory decrees for the application of royal edicts or of customary practices; they could also refuse to register laws that they judged contrary to fundamental law or simply as being untimely.
He argues that Article V remains the most clear and powerful way to register the sovereign desires of the American public with regard to alterations of their fundamental law.
In incorporating these principles into the fundamental law, there was no intention of disregarding the exceptions, which continued to be recognized as if they had been formally expressed.
Lack of fundamental laws There is a philosophical debate within the physics community as to whether a theory of everything deserves to be called the fundamental law of the universe.
Weinberg (1993), Ch 2. One view is the hard reductionist position that the ToE is the fundamental law and that all other theories that apply within the universe are a consequence of the ToE.