Class Political Science and Constitutional Law II

 The Curricular Unit of Political Science and Constitutional Law II is a discipline of general training of the law course that seeks to deepen and develop the study of Constitutional Law carried out in the first semester. Thus, we will continue to develop the study of the organs of sovereignty, analyzing the formation, composition and competences of the Assembly of the Republic, the Government and the Courts. We will then study the Autonomous Regions and their juridic-constitutional regime. We will also review the main principles and constitutional bodies relating to local government and public administration. Finally, we will try to deepen constitutional guarantees, with a special focus on the supervision of constitutionality, its modalities, legal regimes and effects, as well as on constitutional revision.

1. Organs of Sovereignty – the Assembly of the Republic: composition, functions, statute, incompatibilities, and replacement of members and, in particular, the relative and absolute competence of the Assembly of the Republic. Parliamentary assessment;
2. Hierarchy of laws and normative acts – Article 112 and laws of enhanced value in particular;
3. The Government - functions, composition and competences;
4. The Courts - function, organisation and status of judges;
5. The Autonomous Regions - notion, political status, powers, organs and competences. the representative of the republic in particular;
6. Local government and public administration - principles and principles.
7. The Constitutional Guarantee - the review of constitutionality;
8. The Constitutional Review.

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