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4 days ago · Although constitutional developments in the UK have resulted in increasing devolution and regionalization, the UK’s uncodified constitution and the principle of parliamentary sovereignty make the UK de jure a unitary state. The laws passed by the UK Parliament carry precedence over all other state institutions.
1 day ago · This unique framework of territorial administration has been labeled by the Constitutional Court as the "State of Autonomous Communities", to avoid implying either a unitary or federal model. Some scholars have referred to the resulting system as a federal system in all but name, or a "federation without federalism".
5 days ago · The cultural and political awakening of the Flemish changed the unitary state Belgium. It became a federal state where competencies and powers were decentralized to regional and language community levels with their own needs.
5 days ago · Tropical Island in American Samoa. Found in the South Pacific, American Somoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States. Administered by the US Department of Interior, it consists of five volcanic islands and two coral atolls. The United States gained control of the islands in 1900 after the land was ceded to them by the Tutuila, a ...
1 day ago · Reading of the United States Constitution of 1787. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.
2 days ago · Social science currently offers two broad explanations for the origin of government—neither of which is conclusive. The “extractive” theory assumes that might makes right: powerful groups took resources from weaker ones and installed themselves as elites to perpetuate the cycle, in a kind of “institutionalized bullying,” says Heldring.
5 days ago · The unitary state that became so all pervasive in the twentieth century was not so much in evidence in the nineteenth century, or the twentieth, until the First World War. In short, both authors raise the issue of sovereignty, but fail to trace the development of that concept in Anglo-American thinking.
