A. judicial precedents
B. customary sources
C. statutory sources
D. party manifestoes
Correct Answer: Option D
D. party manifestoes
Explanation
The sources of a constitution are:-
- The legislature, Legal instrument, Statute, and Parliamentary acts
- Historical documents
- Constitution of other countries
- Previous constitutions of the country
- Opinions, writings, and commentaries of eminent legal experts and political thinkers, government authorities and committees
- Usages, Principles, Norms, Habits, Customs, Convention, Practices, Traditions, Rule of actions applicable to the government- Common Law {Established and accepted patterns of behaviour of governance}
- Judicial decisions, Commentary by the judiciary, Judges made maxims- Case Laws {Judge made laws}
- Decisions of the constitutional assembly
- Parliamentary standing orders
- Legal doctrines and concepts
- Theory of judicial precedent
- Religious legal texts
- Equity, Justice and Good Conscience
