Organic Law

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Organic Law

The fundamental law or constitution of a particular state or nation, either written or unwritten, that defines and establishes the manner in which its government will be organized.

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The federal organic laws began on the first page of the

provisions that were not repugnant to the organic laws of Missouri

ORGANIC LAW OF THE FRAMERS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

various acts of Congress, formed the territorial organic law of sixteen

Northwest Ordinance's enduring status as federal organic law.

incorporated into the organic law of almost all of the territories

source of binding organic law akin to a constitution.

derived from state organic law) under the Due Process Clause, the rights

The other three sources of the official organic law of the United

the organic law of the United States but also an expression of the

organic law protected by the state constitutions of the original

thirteen states, an expression of the organic law that extended to the

An organic law theory of the Fourteenth Amendment: the Northwest Ordinance as the source of rights, privileges, and immunities