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constitutional court
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court that deals primarily with constitutional law
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- Instance of
- court
- Subclass of
- constitutional institution
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- Interior in Constitutional Court, Judicial Yuan 20090706.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established rules, rights, and freedoms, among other things.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “constitutional court” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.