The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic (Czech: Ústavní soud České republiky) is a specialized type of court which primarily works to protect the people of the Czech Republic against violations of the constitution by either the legislature or by the government. In this respect, it is similar in functionality to the US Supreme Court, but is distinct from the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic. Of all the various levels of the Czech Judiciary it is the one created with the greatest specificity in the constitution.
The decisions of the Court are final and are considered being a source of law, similar to precedents in a common law system.
Although the Court itself was established only in 1993, its Czechoslovak predecessor was provided for already in the Constitution of 1920, making Czechoslovakia the first country in the world with a system of judicial review by a specialized court (although the court itself first convened after the Austrian one). It was later adopted by many other countries.
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