Article 6, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution establishes the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, and U.S. Treaties as "the supreme law of the land."
a list of items found in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that set forth the authoritative capacity of Congress.
a republican system of government where a head of government is also head of state and leads an executive branch that is separate from a legislative branch.
the power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appellate jurisdiction, when a court has the power to review a lower court's decision.
Consisted of two types of rights: legal rights-those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system; and natural rights-those not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable.
is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in the year 1215. It was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights.
an autocratic or authoritarian form of government in which a government is ruled by either an individual: a dictator, or an authoritarian party, as in an oligarchy.
Article 148 - There shall be a Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India who shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal and shall only be removed from office in like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court.
The remuneration of the AG is not fixed by the constitution and receives such remuneration as the President may decide. Solicitor General of India -. Apart from AG, there are other law officers of the Government of India. They are the solicitor general of India and additional solicitor general of India.
Article 76 does not mention about the solicitor general and additional solicitor general. The AG is not a member of the central cabinet. There is a separate law minister in the central cabinet to look after legal matters at the government level.