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What is "fundamental law"

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fundamental law

n. law determining the fundamental political principles of a government [syn: organic law, constitution]

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Fundamental law

Fundamental law(s) may refer to:

  • Organic law, in particular,
    • Constitution, in particular,
      • The Russian Constitution of 1906.
      • The German Grundgesetz (more commonly translated as "Basic Law").
      • The four individual laws that together make up the Constitution of Sweden.
      • The Fundamental Laws of England.
      • The Fundamental Law of Vatican City State
      • The Fundamental Law of Hungary
    • The Basic Laws of a country which does not use the term "constitution", or has an uncodified constitution
  • The fundamental physical laws of the universe
  • In religion, The Ten Commandments

Usage examples of "fundamental law".

And while Grayson had no equivalent of Manticore's code duello, its fundamental law still enshrined any steadholder's right to trial by combat against the Protector's decrees.

That assembly, since the destruction of the orders, has no fundamental law, no strict convention, no respected usage to restrain it.

And even that was only because the edict's proponents had used the Solarian Constitution's referendum provisions to do an end run around the Assembly and amend it to incorporate the edict into the League's fundamental law after the horrific casualties of the Eridani Incident.

So far, therefore as we can be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter solely of fundamental law, with a {9} few simple and comprehensive propositions stated in very general terms.

Enforcement of the Eridani Edict had been part of the League's fundamental law for five hundred and three years, and the League Navy's standing orders were clear: any government or star nation or rogue mercenary outfit which indiscriminately bombarded an inhabited planet or directed a bombardment of any sort against a planetary population which had not first been summoned to surrender would be destroyed.

It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.