Definition of "fundamental law" [fundamental law]

• Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all National Governments."
• "The people of that country having never been in the habit of self-government, are not yet in the habit of acknoleging that fundamental law of nature, by which alone self government can be exercised by a society, I mean the lex majoris partis."
• "Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent; epithalamia and lamentations; little satirical songs; odes of wonderful lyrism etc. The fundamental law of Hebrew poetry, the parallelism of the stichs, is usually observed."