[header] How to distinguish constitutional and nonconstitutional law [title] Identify the body that made the law. [step] One of the initial ways to distinguish among different types of law is to find out which body of government made the law. A constitution may have been created by a separate constitutional convention assembled solely for that purpose.
[substeps] Non-constitutional law, in contrast, is typically created by an ordinary government body. State statutes, for example, are created by state legislatures and signed into law by the state governor.