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Yet its constitution severely constrains its ability to send combat units for the Security Council’s peacekeeping operations.
They seized computers and files, disabling the animal-rights movement as it was on the eve of launching a new initiative to enshrine the protection of animals in the Austrian constitution.
Seeking to make permanent his coup, Musharraf has proposed amendments to Pakistan's constitution.
The problem with debt restructuring in the eurozone is that it is essential and, at the same time, inconsistent with the implicit constitution underpinning the monetary union.
By criminalizing sexual acts in private between consenting adults, Section 377 violates the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 21 (life and liberty, including privacy and dignity), Article 14 (equality before the law) and Article 15 (prohibition of discrimination) of India’s constitution.
In Western democracies, the constitution is the supreme law of the land, taking precedence over all other legislation.
With Trump himself essentially amounting to an unexpected shock, this safety valve – indeed, the US constitution itself – is being tested.
This requires Ukraine to amend its constitution in order to provide special status to the breakaway regions – a change to the fundamental structure of the country, which, after the loss of some 10,000 lives, is unlikely to be politically feasible.
In exchange, the Kremlin has pledged to support – but only after the constitution is changed – Ukraine’s national government in its reassertion of control over those regions, as well as over its border with Russia.
According to the Turkish constitution, it is illegal for any agency, even the military, to try to overthrow a democratically elected government.
Even in Germany, where referenda are not envisaged by the constitution, there are calls to hold one over Turkey's entry; one opposition party has already announced that it will make this a central issue in next year's election campaign for the European Parliament.
Similarly, it was not Putin who enacted a constitution with an enormously powerful presidential government and a weak system of checks and balances, nor did he start the slaughter in Chechnya.
The political upheavals of 1999-2000 resulted in a new “democratic” constitution that became an invitation to civil war.
Regional and religious tensions had been growing since Houphouet’s death and were aggravated by the new constitution, which enshrined ethnic discrimination.
Some Japanese politicians talk about revising Article 9 of the constitution, which restricts Japan’s forces to self defense, and a few have spoken of nuclear armament.
The Japanese have fairly large armed forces, but are hampered by a pacifist constitution written by Americans in 1946.
The current Japanese government, under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, would like to revise the pacifist constitution, as a necessary first step toward weaning the country off its total dependence on the US.
Egypt, meanwhile, is finding its own equilibrium, both domestically, drafting a new constitution, and in terms of foreign policy.
Last spring in Burundi, President Pierre Nkurunziza assumed a third term in office, despite the two-term limit enshrined in the constitution.
That requires a new government of unquestionable legitimacy, chosen through a free and fair presidential election before the end of this year, as dictated by the constitution.
The referendum to approve the new constitution will naturally be organized again by the regime-controlled electoral authority.
South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution guarantees the right to public-sector information and, in many cases, private business information as well.
This is precisely why Europe should be debating about the Continent's real problems, not locking their economies into corporatism by enshrining the "social market economy" into the emerging EU constitution.
No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.
For example, during the referendum campaign in France for the European constitution, the “Polish plumber” became a symbol of the threat that European integration was supposed to pose to French workers’ standards of living.
The incomplete victory over Britain rankled in the predominantly Catholic Republic of Ireland; until 1999, the Irish constitution included a commitment to the “reintegration” of the whole island.
Kurds will accept the arrangement because they believe that the new constitution guarantees their right to control most of the oil wealth that lies beneath their territory, and because they don’t want the blame should Baghdad descend into chaos.
Article 11 of the new constitution declares that “All that is not written in the exclusive powers of the federal authorities is in the authority of the regions.”
Similarly, under current law, soldiers will answer not to Baghdad but to regional powerbrokers, while the Iraqi constitution guarantees local governments the right to pocket the revenue that flows from new oil fields within their jurisdiction.
For example, while Interpol recently rejected Russia’s request to pursue the investment banker William F. Browder (a fierce critic of the Russian government since the death of his lawyer, Magnitsky), it should apply Article 3 of its constitution, which bars it from participating in political matters, much more scrupulously.
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