Criteria for distinguishing laws complementary to the constitution from regular laws

Kazem, Farah Salman; Ubeed, Adnan Ajil

doi:10.63677/jqlap.2025.184967

Criteria for distinguishing laws complementary to the constitution from regular laws

https://doi.org/10.63677/jqlap.2025.184967

Volume 16, Issue: 1 part 1
Winter 2025

Pages 275-290

AL-Qadisiya Journal For Law and Political Sciences

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Farah Salman Kazem

adnan ajil ubeed

Al-Qadisiyah University/College of Law

Abstract

This research deals with the criteria through which jurisprudence and the
constitutional judiciary were legislated, to examine the legal nature of laws
complementary to the constitution, and the relationship of these criteria to
the classification of those laws, being considered either as regular laws or laws
complementary to the constitution. Then the research investigates the effectiveness of those
criteria in determining the nature of laws complementary to the
constitution. The importance of determining the legal nature of laws
complementary to the constitution comes from the importance of the topics they regulate
through direct forwarding from the constitution and in the body of its texts. Among those topics are topics that regulate the work of the legislative authority, topics that deal with the work of the executive authority, topics that regulate the judicial authority, in addition to those texts on rights and freedoms. The constitution often sets the
main axes and lines and leaves the matters of its organization and the way of exercising its jurisdiction to complementary laws that determine the conditions and set the appropriate mechanism for the work of those authorities.

Keywords

Laws complementary to the Constitution

Formal criterion

Objective criterion

Mixed standard Legal nature