This means that the Constitution cannot be interpreted in the same way as an ordinary statute.

This ensures that changes to the President's discretionary powers can only be made by way of constitutional amendments and not ordinary statutes.

Because the Act was an ordinary statute, it could be struck down if it were inconsistent with the state constitution.

To do this it amended both the Constitution of California and ordinary statutes.

It may take the form of a constitutional amendment or an ordinary statute.

However, unlike many other ombudsman agencies, they do not have constitutional status, but were created by ordinary statutes.

If they are ratified, they become like ordinary statutes.

All ordinary statutes enacted by Parliament must be consistent with the Constitution.

These are ordinary statutes which can be changed by a simple majority in Parliament.

Proposition 7 introduced a form of optional (or facultative) referendum on ordinary statutes.