Assertion: constitution | /r/HasAspect | supremacy
Facets:
value: over ordinary statutory law
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In most but not all modern states the constitution has supremacy over ordinary statutory law (see Uncodified constitution below); in such states when an official act is unconstitutional, i.e. it is not a power granted to the government by the constitution, that act is null and void, and the nullification is ab initio, that is, from inception, not from the date of the finding.