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Constitution and Constitutionalism: An Overview

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Constitution and Constitutionalism: An Overview By Pushkal Garewal   (“Constitutions spring from a belief in a limited government.”) -           Schwartz The interpretation of statute in context with constitutionalism is the negation of absolute power and the totalitarian state, the literal meaning suggests the constitutionalism is the “limited government”, but the meaning of constitutionalism is not limited to the "limited government." Instead, the scope of constitutionalism is much wider. The different scholar interpreted this adherent word with the constitutional law and defines the glory of the constitution. According to Douglas Greenberg, “constitutionalism is a commitment to limitations on ordinary political power, It revolves around a political process, One that overlaps with democracy in seeking to balance state power and individual and collective rights, It draws on particular cultural and historical contexts...