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Constitution of the Netherlands
Overview
Original title
(in Dutch) Grondwet voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden van 24 augustus 1815
Jurisdiction
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ratified
24 August 1815; 208 years ago (1815-08-24)
Date effective
24 August 1815; 208 years ago (1815-08-24)
System
Constitutional monarchy
Government structure
Branches
Three (executive, legislature and judiciary)
Chambers
Two (Senate and the House of Representatives)
Executive
Prime Minister-led Council of Ministers responsible to the House of Representatives
Federalism
Unitary
Electoral college
No
Last amended
22 February 2023; 14 months ago (2023-02-22)
Supersedes
Grondwet van den Staat der Verëenigde Nederlanden (1814)
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The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Grondwet voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) is one of two fundamental documents governing the Kingdom of the Netherlands[1] as well as the fundamental law of the European territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is generally seen as directly derived from the one issued in 1815, constituting a constitutional monarchy; it is the third oldest constitution still in use worldwide. A revision in 1848 instituted a system of parliamentary democracy. In 1983, the most recent major revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands was undertaken, almost fully rewriting the text and adding new civil rights.
The text is sober, devoid of legal or political doctrine and includes a bill of rights. It prohibits the judiciary from testing laws and treaties against the constitution, as this is considered a prerogative of the legislature. There is no constitutional court in the Netherlands.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands also includes Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten: there is an overarching instrument of the entire kingdom that has constitution characteristics: the Statute of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Sint Maarten is the only country in the kingdom of the Netherlands that has a constitutional court to govern the Sint Maarten legislature
^Article 5 of the Statute for the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch oftheNetherlands, who functions...
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"Netherlands Antilles". After the Dutch constitution was revised in 1948, a new interim ConstitutionoftheNetherlands Antilles was enacted in February...
served as their retreat. While on Bigwin Island, theconstitutionoftheNetherlands was stored in the safe of Bigwin Inn's rotunda building. Princess Juliana...
countries ofthe Kingdom oftheNetherlands. TheNetherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with...
describes the position and function ofthe institutions that have executive, legislative and judiciary power. Theconstitution applies to theNetherlands, one...
TheConstitutionoftheNetherlands Antilles (Dutch: Staatsregeling van de Nederlandse Antillen) was proclaimed on 29 March 1955 by Order-in-Council for...
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other...
The following is a list of national constitutions by country, semi-recognized countries, and by codification. A codified constitution is a constitution...
The States General oftheNetherlands (Dutch: Staten-Generaal [ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ˌɣeːnəˈraːl] ) is the supreme bicameral legislature oftheNetherlands consisting...
Thorbecke, who almost single-handedly wrote the 1848 ConstitutionoftheNetherlands that turned the country into a constitutional monarchy. In contemporary...
The Supreme Court oftheNetherlands (Dutch: Hoge Raad der Nederlanden [ˈɦoːɣə raːdər ˈneːdərlɑndə(n)] or simply Hoge Raad), officially the High Council...
The tasks ofthe Royal Netherlands Army are laid out in theConstitutionoftheNetherlands: defend the territory ofthe Kingdom oftheNetherlands (including...
in the Kingdom oftheNetherlands. The existence of nobility was established in theConstitutionoftheNetherlandsof 1814. Those who belong to the nobility...
king oftheNetherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840. William was the son of William V, Prince of Orange, the last...
gemeenten) in theNetherlands. The latter is the status of three ofthe six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level...
his reign, theNetherlands became a parliamentary democracy with the new constitutionof 1848. William II was married to Anna Pavlovna of Russia. They...
2004) was Queen oftheNetherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
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Kingdom of the Netherlands![Azure, billetty Or a lion with a coronet Or armed and langued Gules holding in his dexter paw a sword Argent hilted Or and in the sinister paw seven arrows Argent pointed and bound together Or. [The seven arrows stand for the seven provinces of the Union of Utrecht.] The shield is crowned with the (Dutch) royal crown and supported by two lions Or armed and langued gules. They stand on a scroll Azure with the text (Or) "Je Maintiendrai" (French for "I will maintain".)](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/State_coat_of_arms_of_the_Netherlands.svg/150px-State_coat_of_arms_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png)
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