10. R. Kranenburg

Constitutional Law includes the law regarding the legal structure of the State contained in the Constitution.

11. Utrecht

Constitutional Law studies the social obligations and powers of state officials.

12. Kusumadi Pudjosewojo

Constitutional Law is the law that regulates the form of the state (unitary or federal), and the form of government (kingdom or republic), which shows the legal community, both superiors and subordinates, along with their levels (hierarchy"), which further authorizes the territory and environment of the people of those legal communities and finally shows the equipment (which holds the ruling power) of that legal community, along with its structure (consisting of one or a number of people), authority, balance levels from and between that equipment.

13. J.R. Stellinga

Constitutional Law is the law that regulates the authority and obligations of state equipment, regulates the rights and obligations of citizens.

14. L.J. Apeldorn

The concept of the State has several meanings:

  1. The state in the sense of ruler, namely the existence of people who hold power in a community of people who inhabit an area.
  2. The state in the sense of a community of people, namely the existence of a nation that lives in one area, under authority according to legal principles.
  3. The state in the sense of a certain territory, namely the existence of an area where a nation lives under authority.
  4. The state in the sense of the Treasury or Fikus, namely the existence of assets held by the authorities for the public interest.

Conclusion Understanding of Constitutional Law

After studying the formulations of the meaning of Constitutional Law from various sources, both in terms of constitutional law terminology and the understanding of constitutional law from the experts above, it can be seen that there is no unity of opinion among the experts regarding this matter. From these diverse opinions, we can know that actually:

Constitutional Law is one branch of law, namely state law which is in the realm of public law.

The understanding of constitutional law has been developed by experts, so that it not only includes studies regarding state organs, functions and mechanisms of relations between state organs, but also includes issues related to the mechanism of relations between state organs and citizens.

Constitutional law is not only a recht or law and especially as a wet or written legal norm, but also as lehre or theory, so that the understanding of constitutional law includes what is referred to as verfassungrecht (constitutional law) and at the same time verfassunglehre (constitutional theory)

Constitutional law in the broad sense includes both the law that studies the state in a static state (staat in rust) as well as studying the state in motion (staat in beweging)
From the Understanding of Constitutional Law, it can be concluded that Constitutional Law is a set of regulations that govern the organization of the state, the relationship between state equipment in vertical and horizontal lines, as well as the position of citizens and their basic rights.

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