A report on Law, Legislature and Constitution

A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

A constitution is an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.

State-enforced laws can be made by a group legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes; by the executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions.

The creation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded therein.

Some political systems follow the principle of legislative supremacy, which holds that the legislature is the supreme branch of government and cannot be bound by other institutions, such as the judicial branch or a written constitution.

The standard model, described by the Baron de Montesquieu, involves three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.