Dominica Constitution

Professional constitutional overview

Textual architecture, allocation of power and research posture

Constitutional architecture

The stored constitutional corpus for Dominica brings the recorded instruments and their eligible provision metadata into one navigable research record.

Read the instruments together where the constitutional system is distributed across more than one text. The provision map preserves instrument, chapter and article context while keeping direct links to the stored source record.

64 provisions

Dominica's Constitution of 1978 with Amendments through 2014

Primary Constitution

Allocation of public power

Use the constitutional function in issue as the entry point, then read the exact text and any connected provisions together.

Legislative authority

Provisions concerning representative institutions, law-making authority and legislative procedure.

art 11 · art 30 · art 49

Executive government

Provisions concerning executive office, administration and the exercise of public authority.

art 28 · art 58 · art 59 · art 60

Judicial authority

Provisions concerning courts, judicial power, jurisdiction and the administration of justice.

art 42

Public finance

Provisions concerning public money, revenue, expenditure and financial accountability.

art 1

Constitutional change

Provisions governing amendment, alteration, referendum or formal constitutional review.

art 1 · art 2 · art 3 · art 4

Rights and limitations on power

The rows below are selected from stored headings that signal rights, freedoms, equality or related limits. Open eligible provisions for the stored source wording.

1. Fundamental rights and freedoms: Dominica's Constitution of 1978 with Amendments through 2014
2. Protection of right to life: Dominica's Constitution of 1978 with Amendments through 2014
3. Protection of right to personal liberty: Dominica's Constitution of 1978 with Amendments through 2014
9. Protection of freedom of conscience: Dominica's Constitution of 1978 with Amendments through 2014
10. Protection of freedom of expression: Dominica's Constitution of 1978 with Amendments through 2014

Alteration and constitutional change

These source-indexed provisions contain headings associated with amendment, alteration, referendum, review or repeal.

art 11. Fundamental rights and freedoms
art 22. Protection of right to life
art 33. Protection of right to personal liberty
art 44. Protection from slavery and forced labour
art 55. Protection from inhuman treatment
art 66. Protection from deprivation of property

Research posture and source status

Current In Force

1 recorded instruments · English

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This page is a source-indexed map of the recorded constitutional release. Constitutional meaning may also depend on judicial interpretation, convention, transitional instruments and later official amendments.