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The words Constitution comes from the Latin wordsConstituo meaning fixed
established settled.
According to Charles Bargeaud- a Constitution is a high authority on the
subject of constitution.Is the fundamental Law according to which the
government of a state is organized and agreed;y to which the relations of
individuals or moral person to the community are determined. It may be a
written instrument a precise text or series of text enacted at a given time by
a sovereign power, or it may to the mote or less definite result of a series of
legislative acts, ordinaries, judicial decisions,precident and customs of
diverse origin and unequal value and importance
Judge Cooley defines a constitution as the fundamental aw of the state
containing the principle upon which government is founded regulating the
division of the sovereign powers and directing to what persons each of these
powers is to exercised.