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Status of the Constitution
- EnglishI. The legal system of the Republic of Azerbaijan consists of the following normative-legal Acts:
1. the Constitution;
… (Art. 148) - AzerbaijaniI. Qanunvericilik sistemi aşağıdakı normativ hüquqi aktlardan ibarətdir:
1) Konstitusiya;
… (Maddə 148)
Status of the Constitution
- English
The Constitution of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is a fundamental law of the nation.
All laws must comply with the Constitution. (Art. 117) - Lao
ລັດຖະທໍາມູນ ແຫ່ງ ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ ແມ່ນກົດໝາຍພື້ນຖານຂອງຊາດ.
ທຸກກົດໝາຍ ຕ້ອງໃຫ້ສອດຄ່ອງກັບລັດຖະທໍາມະນູນ. (ມາດຕາ 117) (ປັບປຸງ)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe orders of the Constitutional Court are not susceptible to any recourse and are immediately executory. They are obligatory and [are] imposed on the public powers, on all the administrative, and jurisdictional, [and] civil and military authorities as well as on individuals.
Any act declared non-conforming to the Constitution is null[,] of right. (Art. 168) - FrenchLes arrêts de la Cour constitutionnelle ne sont susceptibles d’aucun recours et sont immédiatement exécutoires. Ils sont obligatoires et s’imposent aux pouvoirs publics, à toutes les autorités administratives et juridictionnelles, civiles et militaires ainsi qu’aux particuliers.
Tout acte déclaré non conforme à la Constitution est nul de plein droit. (Art. 168)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishJudges may not apply any laws that are in conflict with the Constitution.
… (Art. 110) - LithuanianTeisėjas negali taikyti įstatymo, kuris prieštarauja Konstitucijai.
... (110 straipsnis)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThis Constitution is the supreme law of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and, subject to the provisions of this Constitution, if any other law is inconsistent with this Constitution, this Constitution, shall prevail and the other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void. (Art. 2)
Status of the Constitution
- English
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25. Except for existing International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements entered into by Bhutan, which shall continue in force subject to section 10 of Article 1, all International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements duly acceded to by the Government hereafter, shall be deemed to be the law of the Kingdom only upon ratification by Parliament unless it is inconsistent with this Constitution. (Art. 10) - Dzongkha
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༢༥) རྩ་ཚན་༡ པའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༠ པ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ འབྲུག་གིས་དངོས་གཏོགས་གྲུབ་པའི་ཆ་ གནས་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་ཚུ་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིན་ཆད་གཞུང་གིས་ངོས་སྦྱོར་ཚུལ་མཐུན་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་བཅས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་མ་མཐུན་ན་མ་གཏོགས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྦེ་ཆ་བཞག་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༠༽
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThis Constitution is the Basic Law of all the laws of the Union. (Sec. 449)
- Burmeseဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေသည် နိုင်ငံတော်အတွင်းရှိ ဥပဒေအားလုံး၏ အခြေခံဥပဒေဖြစ်သည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၄၄၉)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishAny provisions that oppose what is provided in this Fundamental Law are derogated. (Derogatory Provision)
- SpanishQuedan derogadas cuantas disposiciones se opongan a lo dispuesto en la presente Ley Fundamental. (Disposición Derogatoria)
- FrenchLes dispositions contraires à la présente Loi fondamentale sont réputées abrogées. (Disposition abrogative)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishRights and liberties shall be exercised on the basis of the Constitution and the confirmed international agreements.
… (Art. 17) - MontenegrinPrava i slobode ostvaruju se na osnovu Ustava i potvrđenih međunarodnih sporazuma.
… (Član 17)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) This Charter11 applies
(a) to the Parliament and government of Canada in respect of all matters within the authority of Parliament including all matters relating to the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories; and
(b) to the legislature and government of each province in respect of all matters within the authority of the legislature of each province. (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 32) - French(1) La présente charte s’applique:
a) au Parlement et au gouvernement du Canada, pour tous les domaines relevant du Parlement, y compris ceux qui concernent le territoire du Yukon et les territoires du Nord-Ouest;
b) à la législature et au gouvernement de chaque province, pour tous les domains relevant de cette législature. (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, Sec. 32)