written constitution

A written constitution is a formal, codified document that outlines the fundamental principles, structures, powers, and limits of a government, as well as the rights and duties of its citizens.

Aliases (27)

• constitution ×62
• national constitution ×25
• state constitution ×17
• political document ×8
• municipal charter ×7
• constitutional charter ×5
• foundational legal charter ×5
• charter ×3
• constituent instrument ×3
• centralist constitution ×2
• colonial constitution ×2
• interim constitution ×2
• liberal constitution ×2
• provisional constitution ×2
• Canadian constitutional statute ×1
• Constitution of the Philippines ×1
• French constitutional text ×1
• Greek constitutional charter ×1
• Greek constitutional document ×1
• Mexican constitutional framework ×1
• constitutional document family ×1
• founding legal charter ×1
• mini-constitution ×1
• model constitution ×1
• municipal constitution ×1
• post–World War II constitution ×1
• transitional constitution ×1

Instances (166)

• Constitution of Japan ("national constitution")
• Constitution of Greece ("constitution")
• 1976 Portuguese Constitution ("constitution")
• Meiji Constitution ("constitution")
• Alaska Constitution ("state constitution")
• Oregon Constitution ("state constitution")
• Constitution of Bermuda
• Constitution of Belgium ("constitution")
• Indiana Constitution ("state constitution")
• Charter of the City and County of San Francisco ("municipal charter")
• French Constitution of 1791 ("constitution")
• Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774) ("political document")
• IMT Charter ("charter")
• French Constitution of 1793 ("constitution")
• French Constitution of 1795 ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836) ("founding legal charter")
• Constitution of Norway
• Constitution of Maryland ("state constitution")
• Portland City Charter ("municipal charter")
• Constitution of Ecuador ("constitution")
• Constitution of Zimbabwe ("constitution")
• Constitution of India
• Constitution of Puerto Rico ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Year X ("constitutional charter")
• French Constitution of 1802 ("constitution")
• Constitution of California ("state constitution")
• Political Constitution of the United Mexican States ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ("state constitution")
• Pakistan (Provisional Constitution) Order 1947 ("interim constitution")
• Constitution of Pakistan 1956 ("national constitution")
• Constitution of Bangladesh ("national constitution")
• North Carolina state constitution ("state constitution")
• Los Angeles City Charter ("municipal charter")
• Declaration and Resolves ("political document")
• Address to the People of Great Britain ("political document")
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut ("colonial constitution")
• United States Constitution
• Frame of Government of Pennsylvania ("colonial constitution")
• Constitution of Pakistan (1973) ("national constitution")
• Charter of the City of Newton ("municipal charter")
• Commonwealth Charter ("charter")
• Constitution of the Netherlands ("constitution")
• Basic Law ("constitution")
• Constitution of Italy ("constitution")
• Constitution of 1976 ("national constitution")
• Spanish Constitution ("constitution")
• Weimar Constitution ("constitution")
• Constitution of Chile ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Soviet Union ("constitution")
• Nihon-koku Kenpō ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Year VIII ("constitution")
• North Korean constitution ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Russian Federation ("national constitution")
• Constitution of Finland ("constitution")
• Constitution of the People's Republic of China ("national constitution")
• Siete Leyes ("centralist constitution")
• Acte additionnel aux constitutions de l'Empire ("constitutional charter")
• Constitution of 1857 ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Republic of Turkey ("constitution")
• Cádiz Constitution of 1812 ("constitution")
• Leyes Constitucionales de 1836 ("centralist constitution")
• Constitution of Egypt ("national constitution")
• Constitution of the Fifth Republic ("national constitution")
• Illinois Constitution ("state constitution")
• Australian Constitution
• Small Constitution of 1947 ("provisional constitution")
• Haitian Constitution of 1801 ("constitution")
• Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ("constitution")
• Constitution of Colombia ("national constitution")
• Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas ("national constitution")
• Constitution of Peru ("national constitution")
• Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ("national constitution")
• Jamaican Constitution of 1962 ("national constitution")
• Constitution of UNESCO ("constituent instrument")
• Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("mini-constitution")
• Constitution of the Confederate States of America
• Constitution of Georgia ("constitution")
• 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union ("constitution")
• Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 ("constitution")
• Constitution of 1866 (Texas) ("state constitution")
• Virginia state government ("state constitution")
• Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1997 ("constitution")
• Constitution of 3 May 1791 (adopted by the Four-Year Sejm) ("national constitution")
• Constitution of Slovakia ("constitution")
• Magna Carta ("charter")
• Constitution of Queensland ("state constitution")
• Constitution of Panama ("national constitution")
• 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union ("constitution")
• Mexican Constitution of 1824 ("constitution")
• Siete Leyes (1836 Mexican constitutional laws) ("Mexican constitutional framework")
• Constitution of Solomon Islands ("national constitution")
• American state constitutions ("constitutional document family")
• Prussian Constitution of 1850 ("constitution")
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress ("political document")
• Petition to the King ("political document")
• Constitutive Charter of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ("constituent instrument")
• Model State Constitution ("model constitution")
• Pennsylvania Constitution ("state constitution")
• Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda
• Statuto Albertino ("constitution")
• Constitution of the United Kingdom ("constitution")
• Constitution of Papua New Guinea ("national constitution")
• Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ("constitution")
• Interim Constitution of Azad Jammu and Kashmir ("interim constitution")
• Constitution of 1931 ("constitution")
• Constitution of Saint Kitts and Nevis ("national constitution")
• March Constitution of 1921 ("constitution")
• Constitution of the Philippines ("national constitution")
• Constitution of 1827 (Troezen) ("constitution")
• American Declaration of Independence ("political document")
• Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ("national constitution")
• Provisional Constitution of 1822 ("provisional constitution")
• Constitution of 1933 ("constitution")
• Constitution of Tunisia ("constitution")
• Charter of the City of Montreal ("municipal charter")
• Czechoslovak constitution of 1920 ("constitution")
• Detroit City Charter ("municipal charter")
• Constitution of 1952 (Greece) ("constitution")
• Constitutional Charter of 1826 ("constitution")
• 1921 Constitution of Turkey ("constitution")
• Constitution of Luxembourg ("constitution")
• Constitution of 1911 (Greece) ("constitution")
• 1924 Constitution of Turkey ("constitution")
• French Charter of 1830 ("constitutional charter")
• Constitution of 1864 (Greece) ("constitution")
• Texas Constitution ("state constitution")
• Constitution of 1844 (Greece) ("constitution")
• Constitution of Cuba ("constitution")
• ITU Constitution ("constituent instrument")
• Constitution of 1823 (Epidaurus) ("constitution")
• Declaration on Atrocities ("political document")
• New York State Constitution ("state constitution")
• Constitution of the Irish Free State ("constitution")
• Provisional Constitution of Greece ("constitution")
• Twenty-one Conditions for admission ("political document")
• April Constitution of 1935 ("constitution")
• Constitution Act, 1982 ("Canadian constitutional statute")
• Constitution of Florida ("state constitution")
• Maine Constitution ("state constitution")
• Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("constitution")
• Constitution of Troezen of 1827 ("constitution")
• New York City Charter ("municipal charter")