Constitution
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In the midst of the cyclone’s devastation, Burma’s ruling generals went ahead and held a referendum on a new
constitution.
Moreover, according to the new
constitution
that was supposedly “approved” by the “referendum,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has never been prosecuted and still remains under house arrest, is barred from standing in the 2010 general elections under the pretext that her deceased husband was British.
We strongly support the Burmese opposition’s campaign calling on the country’s citizens to reject the constitution, which does not promote human rights, but only confirms the military’s political role.
The regime’s draconian “law” (5/96) prohibits participants from criticizing the draft constitution; those who dare to challenge the regime face a 20-year prison sentence.
The Polish
constitution
provides for an independent judiciary, and sets the term for the First President of the Supreme Court at six years.
Almost all judges believe that the PiS is violating the constitution, which is why Duda is filling the newly created chambers with PiS Ministry of Justice officials and MPs instead of actual judges.
Pointing out their violations of the
constitution
and protesting make sense only to the extent that they bring the opposition closer to electoral victory.
According to international law, none of this would require approval by the United Nations Security Council (which Russia and China might veto), because the military force would be invited by a legitimate government seeking support to uphold the country’s
constitution.
The assignment of exceptionally broad powers to the executive president under the new
constitution
reflects a populist vision of government according to which the elected leader, as the true representative of the nation, should not be hindered in pursuing the nation’s interests.
Even with the parliament’s diminished role under the new constitution, control of the legislature remains important for the effective functioning of the state.
German policymakers, for their part, could not easily help Macron bifurcate the EU even if they wanted to, because Germany’s
constitution
grants the Bundestag the inalienable authority to manage the country’s fiscal affairs.
The court may have deferred to the European Court of Justice on the question of the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” scheme; but it will not be able to do the same with respect to fiscal sovereignty, because the
constitution
is clear, and the ECJ has no standing to interpret German constitutional law.
A new constitution, backed by a national referendum, is part of this drive to reshape Taiwan's identity and distinguish the new generation of politicians from those who arrived as exiles from the mainland.
In the past, the Taiwanese repudiated words like referendum and new constitution, owing to China's sensitivity.
If Néstor and Cristina alternate as heads of state, they could do so indefinitely, because Argentina’s
constitution
allows for only one consecutive reelection but no limit on the total number of electoral terms.
So the Chief Prosecutor’s threat should not be taken lightly – all the more so given that the Constitutional Court has banned 18 political parties (including the AKP’s predecessor party) since the current
constitution
was introduced in 1982.
Indeed, the recent call to ban the AKP is directly related to its efforts to change Turkey’s
constitution.
The five senior generals who led the coup appointed, directly or indirectly, all 160 members of the Consultative Assembly that drafted the new constitution, and they retained a veto over the final document.
While the AKP has moderated this authoritarian feature, it is difficult to democratize such a
constitution
fully, and official EU reports on Turkey’s prospects for accession repeatedly call for a new constitution, not merely an amended one.
With public opinion polls indicating that the AKP’s draft constitution, prepared by an academic committee, would be accepted through normal democratic procedures, the Chief Prosecutor acted to uphold the type of secularism enshrined in the 1982 Constitution, which many commentators liken to French secularism.
Only that course will enable Turkey to construct a better
constitution
than it has now.
The draft EU constitution, which failed in the French and Dutch referenda last year, breathes the spirit of this approach.
But that would mean a substantial change in the direction of EU social policies, including revision of the draft
constitution.
Reforming Japan’s Constitution“Reform with no sacred cows” was Junichiro Koizumi’s slogan when he became prime minister five years ago, and no cow here is more sacred than our “peace”
constitution.
So it should be no surprise that, as Koizumi moves toward the end of his second and final term in office, his efforts to reform the
constitution
to allow Japan more effectively to defend world peace are gathering pace.
Although almost everyone concedes that some amendments to the
constitution
are necessary, agreement on what needs to be done has been difficult to reach.
In addition to these divisions, there are problems concerning how to amend the
constitution.
New legislation will be needed to enable amendments to the constitution, and this will take time and even more debate.
Fundamental change, indeed, is needed as soon as possible, because current interpretations of the
constitution
have consistently distorted Japan’s security and defense policies.
Given the current regional security environment– international terrorism tied to local, Asian-based terrorists, various challenges to the security of vital sea lanes, North Korea’s search for nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and China’s rapid enhancement of its naval power–, Asia today is far less stable and more complex than it was when Japan's
constitution
was written.
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