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Constitution
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Uncodified Constitutions: These consist of a mosaic of statutes, judicial decisions, treaties, conventions, and historical documents. The United Kingdom and Israel are primary examples. In these systems, the 'constitution' evolves organically, often resulting in a higher frequency of adaptation to immediate political needs, though this can lead to debates regarding the precise locus of ultimate authority [3].
A peculiar subtype, the Temporal Constitution (found predominan… -
Second French Empire
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Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, was elected as the first President of the Second Republic in 1848. Facing constitutional limits on his ability to run for a second term, he engineered a coup d'état on December 2, 1851, the anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation and victory at Austerlitz. This action dissolved the Legislative Assembly and con…