Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Rigid constitution.

A constitution embodied in a special and distinct enactment, the terms of which cannot be altered by ordinary forms of legislation. 0 The U.S. Constitution, which cannot be changed without the consent of three-fourths of the state legislatures or through a constitutional convention, is of this type. unwritten constitution. The customs and values, some of which are expressed in statutes, that provide the organic and fundamental law of a state or country that does not have a single written law functioning as a constitution.2. The written instrument embodying this fundamental law.