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General principles fill the gap when no statute mentions good faith A constitution's preamble: source of enforceable rights or pure rhetoric? The ranking of sources is not a ladder: an earlier treaty can beat a later statute Unwritten constitutional conventions can outweigh the text they sit beside Precedent and statute conflict: which one wins? A signed treaty can bind a country's courts before its parliament has passed anything What happens when a statute and a constitutional provision point in different directions Codifying a whole branch into one code changes who gets to interpret it What makes a holding binding rather than merely persuasive? Why scholarly writing counts as a formal source in some countries and mere commentary in others Customary law still governs land and marriage in places where the code says otherwise Where religious texts function as state law and where they function as custom

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