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The legal system of Sierra is based primarily on the Anglo-American common law. Although the law has primacy over Sierra, it does apply to the entire Kingdom, except in cases of constitutional law evoked under the Charter. Instead, there are separate legal systems for Hawaii and the Deseret, the other two of the three constituent countries of the Kingdom.

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  • The legal system of Sierra is based primarily on the Anglo-American common law. Although the law has primacy over Sierra, it does apply to the entire Kingdom, except in cases of constitutional law evoked under the Charter. Instead, there are separate legal systems for Hawaii and the Deseret, the other two of the three constituent countries of the Kingdom.
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  • The legal system of Sierra is based primarily on the Anglo-American common law. Although the law has primacy over Sierra, it does apply to the entire Kingdom, except in cases of constitutional law evoked under the Charter. Instead, there are separate legal systems for Hawaii and the Deseret, the other two of the three constituent countries of the Kingdom. Over the years, the Sierran legal system has incorporated aspects of Sierran civil law. For historical reasons, Sierra has also inherited legal traditions of Spanish law from the legacy of its time as a Spanish and then Mexican territory, particularly in regards towards community property and water rights. The most important source of law derives from the Constitution which outlines the basic functions, responsibilities, and powers of the Sierran federal government with the concept of rule of law entrenched into the document and legal tradition. There are four primary sources of law: constitutional law, statutory law (from the Parliament or the monarch), regulatory law (from the executive branch), and the common law (includes both private and criminal law deriving from the courts system). Treaties and other international agreements are other sources of law as well. Nearly all federal law is complied and codified in the Sierra Federal Code, while the federal criminal law is indexed separately in the Sierra Penal Code. Federal law takes precedence over provincial and local law through the Supremacy Doctrine established by the 1862 Supreme Court case Johnston-Phillips v. Province of the Inland Empire. Together, the Constitution and federal law, stand as the ultimate law in Sierra, and holds supremacy over all laws except in areas where the federal government is expressly prohibited by the Constitution and/or where the scope of law is delegated specifically to the provinces. Most laws citizens encounter and experience are provincial laws. Under the Sierran federal system, each province are plenary sovereigns and have their own legal system and government. Provinces are largely responsible for the establishment of their own contract, criminal, family, property, and tort laws, so long as such laws do not conflict any federal/constitutional laws.
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