Fundamental law(s) may refer to:
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Organic law
An organic law is a law, or system of laws, that form the foundation of a government, corporation or any other organization's body of rules. A constitution is a particular form of organic law.
By country France
Under Article 46 of the Constitutio ...
, in particular,
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Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
When these pri ...
, in particular,
*** The
Russian Constitution of 1906
The Russian Constitution of 1906 refers to a major revision of the 1832 Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire, which transformed the formerly absolutist state into one in which the emperor agreed for the first time to share his autocratic power ...
*** The German
Grundgesetz
The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany () is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The West German Constitution was approved in Bonn on 8 May 1949 and came into effect on 23 May after having been approved by the oc ...
(more commonly translated as "Basic Law")
*** The four individual laws that together make up the
Constitution of Sweden
The Basic Laws of Sweden () are the four constitutional laws of the Kingdom of Sweden that regulate the Swedish political system, acting in a similar manner to the constitutions of most countries.
These four laws are: the Instrument of Governmen ...
*** The
Fundamental Laws of England
In the 1760s William Blackstone described the Fundamental Laws of England in '' Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First – Chapter the First : Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals'' as "the absolute rights of every Englishman" and ...
*** The
Fundamental Law of Vatican City State
The Fundamental Law of Vatican City State () is the Constitution, main governing legal document of the Vatican City State, Vatican's civil entities. The Fundamental Law has existed since 1929.
History
The Fundamental Law was first published on ...
*** The
Fundamental Law of Hungary
** The
Basic Law
A basic law is either a codified constitution, or in countries with uncodified constitutions, a law designed to have the effect of a constitution. The term ''basic law'' is used in some places as an alternative to "constitution" and may be inte ...
s of a country that does not use the term "constitution" or has an uncodified constitution
* Any of the fundamental
physical law
Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena. The term ''law'' has diverse usage in many cases (approximate, accurate, broad, or narrow) ...
s of the universe
* In Abrahmic religions,
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (), or the Decalogue (from Latin , from Ancient Greek , ), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given by YHWH to Moses. The text of the Ten C ...
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