Crossword clues for paramountcy
Wiktionary
n. The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
n. the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority
Wikipedia
The doctrine of paramountcy is the legal principle that reconciles contradicting or conflicting laws in a federalist state, where both the central government, and the provincial or state governments, have the power to create laws in relation to the same matters. In a case where both central and state law exist, central laws will be given priority over state laws through the doctrine of supremacy. This is usually applied in cases of indirect rule.
In Canadian constitutional law, the doctrine of paramountcy establishes that where there is a conflict between valid provincial and federal laws, the federal law will prevail and the provincial law will be inoperative to the extent that it conflicts with the federal law. Unlike interjurisdictional immunity, which is concerned with the scope of the federal power, paramountcy deals with the way in which that power is exercised.
Usage examples of "paramountcy".
In certain respects the dynasty remained faithful to ancient native religious practices but as rulers of a newly unified state, fighting China for paramountcy in Central Asia, they may have tried to use the foreign religion as a unifying political and civilising instrument.
Europeans who first saw them, the Melanesians seemed a wretched, barbarous race in the extreme, although there was much to admire in aspects of their social organization--in the paramountcy of kinship obligations for example, or the achievements of building, art and narrative.
That gashed hand was therefore another turning point, because it established the paramountcy of my life.
German successes both in the Balkans and Libya, two widely different types of terrain, prove once again the paramountcy of armoured forces supported by a powerful air force.
Corrupt, wise, weary old Earth fought with masked weapons, since only hidden weapons could maintain so ancient a sovereigntysovereignty which had long since lapsed into a titular paramountcy among the communities of mankind.