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This dimension names the person or body credited with authoring a legal code. Wikipedia notes that codification is "the process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a legal code," work that is normally carried out under one named legislature or commission. Browsing this way collects every code produced by the same author.

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A constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. 1
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A constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
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