FUNDAMENTA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FUNDAMENTAL. This word is applied to those laws which are the foundation of 
  society. Those laws by which the exercise of power is restrained and 
  regulated, are fundamental. The Constitution of the United States is the 
  fundamental law of the land. See Wolff, Inst. Nat. Sec. 984.