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Introduction

The term `legislation' represents a method of deliberately creating

new law by state institutions entrusted with the power to do so.

Among the reasons for the growing importance of legislation

during the past two centuries are the need for greater complexity

of governmental activities, the need for certainty in the

jurisdiction and decisional norms of officials, the belief in

equality of treatment among citizens, and the desire to clarify

rights and obligations of individuals in the society. Legislation

includes the written constitution as well as the various statutes

and enactment of such authority in a state. While the priority

attached to legislation used to vary between the civil and common

law orbits, such variation is gradually losing its importance. The

hierarchy of legislation proceeds downward from the constitution

to the statutes to executive decrees by the president, cabinet and

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