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After all, Rouhani is the supposedly moderate administrator of a state whose constitution is not, in the eyes of the clerical elite, derived from this earthly realm.
Unless Maduro changes, the new National Assembly – where the opposition’s two-thirds majority enables it to amend the constitution – will have to change him.
Thaksin will likely survive this crisis because the new constitution strengthens the premier and the rival Democrats remain in near terminal disarray.
Cuba has never been invited to the Summit of the Americas, because the meeting was designed to include only members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and democratically elected presidents (although Peru’s then-president, Alberto Fujimori, attended in 1998, despite having suspended the country’s constitution in an “auto-coup” in 1992).
Hizb al ghad recently produced a 48-page draft constitution, aimed at reviving Egypt’s stagnant political life.
Other provisions include curbing the far-reaching powers granted to the President in the 1971 constitution and introducing direct presidential elections with multiple candidates.
The draft constitution would transform Egypt into a parliamentary republic.
The ICC had indicated that it would investigate, and possibly indict, government officials after Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza threw his country into turmoil by pursuing a third term, in violation of the constitution.
The early-twentieth-century liberal experiment, when Egypt adopted the Arab world’s first comprehensive constitution (in 1923), took the state away from Ali’s family and (at least in theory) gave it to the people.
Lastly, Japan is gaining influence in the region by inching away from its post-war “peace constitution.”
The root cause of the problem is the new European constitution.
The regime is past reforming, and must give way to a new democratic republic, with a new constitution.
Negotiations are underway to revise a draft EU constitution.
Some Europeans worry that the constitution will enable courts to carry the integration process further and faster than public opinion in member states will tolerate.
Lack of grassroots support might lead to rejection of the constitution in countries like Britain, where referenda have been promised before the new arrangements come into force.
Generally, the constitution does not change, or changes only slowly, whereas a new party or coalition redefines the policy agenda and reforms the legislation.
An attempt to write an EU constitution was made in the early 2000s.
In the US, the economically illiterate, seeing misery all around from lost jobs, foreclosed homes, and the ever more apparent decline in America’s international status, are distilling their frenzy from obsolete advocates of fiscal rectitude, while clutching their Bibles and espousing a juvenile understanding of the US constitution.
One modern country does recognize this risk in its constitution: Germany.
This burden of chronic stress, called “allostatic overload,” reflects not only the impact of life experiences but also our genetic constitution.
Indeed, they have announced their intentions to move forward with conducting a national referendum scheduled for Saturday to approve a new constitution, which they hope will entrench their power for decades to come.
Human rights groups report that opponents of the junta's proposed constitution have been beaten and intimidated in advance of the vote.
The current pro-military constitution lacks credibility because Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest or in prison, and other democratic and ethnic minority leaders have not been allowed to participate in the drafting process.
Additionally, the new constitution would effectively bar Suu Kyi, from running for president because she was married to a foreigner.
At one extreme you find countries like France, whose constitution defines the State as secular ( laique ).
It should reflect the European commitment to the noble heritage of the French Revolution, as reflected in, say, the French constitution, but it should reflect in equal measure the symbolism of those constitutions that include an invocatio dei .
The new Polish constitution gives an elegant answer: It acknowledge both traditions: " We, the Polish Nation - all citizens of the Republic, both those who believe in God as the source of truth, justice, good and beauty, as well as those not sharing such faith but respecting those universal values as arising from other sources, equal in rights and obligations towards the common good …"A similar solution should be found for the European Constitution.
Although its guiding principles have not been enshrined in a constitution, even this may be appropriate to an open society because, as Popper argued, our imperfect understanding does not permit permanent and eternally valid definitions of social arrangements.
That is the one part of the European constitution that urgently needs to be rescued.
Yet, since the election, PiS has launched a series of attacks on the Polish constitution itself.
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