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constitutional court
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court that deals primarily with constitutional law
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Vinony's link graph records 293 inbound references to constitutional court, and connects out to Constitutional Court of Austria, Germany and Sakha.
It is catalogued under topics including Constitutional courts, Courts by type and Incomplete lists from October 2023.
Vinony links it to 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- court
- Subclass of
- constitutional institution
- Image
- Interior in Constitutional Court, Judicial Yuan 20090706.jpg
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- Commons category
- Constitutional courts
- topic's main category
- Category:Constitutional courts
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Encyclopedic overview
A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established rules, rights, and freedoms, among other things.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “constitutional court” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.