Sentence examples for source of law from inspiring English sources

"If Islam is the main source of law, none of these things would happen".

In general, legislation was a source of law only during the republic.

A new conception of law appeared in France: statute was deemed the basic source of law.

Last month, members of the interim government nearly scuttled the signing of the new constitution over an argument about whether Islam is "a" source of law or "the" source of law.

The draft constitution states that Islam will be "a main source" of law, and some Shiites prefer a secular government.

There is an absurdity at the heart of all political systems: what is the source of law?

They have enshrined "the principles of sharia" as the "main source of law", which non-Islamists can probably live with.

Islam is described as only "a source" of legislation among others, not "the primary source" of law, as some Iraqi leaders wanted.

Although codes and statutes are viewed as the primary source of law in Germany, precedent is of great importance in the interpretation of legal rules.

Many conservative Sunnis also want Islam to be the source of law but would differ with the Shias over many details.

The likeliest sort of constitution, provided that the three main components of Iraq (Sunni and Shia Arabs and Kurds) accommodate each other, is a strongly federal one in which Islam is a main but not the sole source of law.