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In Chapter III, I have suggested that the originating legal system of a given legal order may consist in the norms of a constitution. Now, since the proposed definition of ‘legal order’ actually was a definition pattern identifying a sequence of normative systems, beginning with some first system, no further arguments for justifying the special primacy of that originating system were given. Primacy resulted, so to speak, from the model’s defining characteristics.
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Moreso, J.J. (1998). The Primacy of the Constitution. In: Legal Indeterminacy and Constitutional Interpretation. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9123-2_5
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