fundamental law

1. 1.

   law determining the fundamental political principles of a government

   Synonymsorganic lawconstitution

   Broaderlaw

   NarrowerUnited States Constitution

   law

Questions about fundamental law

What does fundamental law mean?

fundamental law means "law determining the fundamental political principles of a government".

What is another word for fundamental law?

Close synonyms include organic law, constitution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fundamental law a common word?

fundamental law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.