#constitutional law

• Early elections — The plural form for actions, payments, administrative decisions, or events executed or settled before the officially established due date. In a political context, the term most frequently denotes early parliamentary elections organized prematurely, before the end of the normal constitutional mandate, following a government crisis or the dissolution of the legislature.
• Unconstitutional — Contravening a state's Constitution, violating the fundamental law, or failing to comply with officially established constitutional norms and principles; unconstitutional. In a legal sense, the term describes ordinances, normative acts, government decisions, or administrative measures declared null and void by the Constitutional Court due to their legal non-compliance.
• Anti-constitutionalism — A doctrinal current, political attitude, or legal doctrine opposing the principles of constitutionalism, challenging the authority, supremacy, or legitimacy of the fundamental law or of constitutional barriers imposed on state power. In a political science sense, it describes authoritarian theories or regimes promoting executive power concentration and the subordination of the judiciary, while ignoring the core rules of constitutional democracy.
• Anti-national — Contrary to the fundamental interests of a nation, a people, or a sovereign state; a policy, ideology, treason, or public behavior that harms national independence, culture, or security. In a structural and legal sense, it describes executive actions, undermining discourses, or international treaties considered abusive or contrary to the patriotic interest.
• Anti-state — Directed against the state, its administrative structures, sovereignty, constitutional order, or fundamental institutions of power; subversive, hostile to political and state organization. In criminal law, the term describes clandestine actions, plots, or acts of sabotage aimed at destabilizing legitimate authority and the proper functioning of the state apparatus.
• Self-governance — The act of self-governing and its result; a form of political and administrative organization whereby a collectivity or country exercises supreme authority over its own affairs, adopting laws and regulations without external management interference. It constitutes the central pillar of regional autonomy and national self-determination movements.
• Self-proclamation — The act of self-proclaiming and its result; a unilateral political or legal act through which an individual or community assigns themselves an official status, sovereign title, or state independence without the prior consent of a higher authority or the electorate. From a constitutional perspective, this structural process is considered illegitimate or revolutionary, frequently generating major diplomatic or geopolitical conflicts until a possible de facto recognition is achieved.
• Government with full powers — A form of organization and exercise of executive power that enjoys full constitutional legitimacy, possessing the legal and political capacity to initiate draft laws, issue emergency decrees, and implement strategic public policies without temporary or mandate-related restrictions. Unlike a caretaker cabinet, it holds total legal authority to bind the state to international treaties and manage the public budget in a sovereign manner.