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He preferred to concentrate on constitutional reforms that were largely interpreted as a bid to strip the new president, Stjepan Mesic (himself a longtime opponent of Tudjman) of the robust executive powers Tudjman wrote into the constitution for himself.
That gives Maduro’s opponents the qualified majority needed to amend the constitution, remove politicized judges and regulators, and, if it comes to it, hold a referendum to remove Maduro.
So, when the leaders of France and the Netherlands – pro-constitution to a fault – asked their people what they thought about the Union, they received a clear echo of their own message: the people did not like the reforms, and they did not like the “Brussels bureaucrats,” constitution or no constitution.
These words are enshrined in Bangladesh’s constitution, which simultaneously declares the Republic to be an Islamic State.
She has even promised a new constitution.
Bachelet’s own commitment to replace the constitution – an authoritarian holdover that she compares to a house that no longer fits the national family’s needs – will now compete with other urgent priorities.
In her victory speech, she reiterated some common campaign themes, including the new constitution, improvements to the education system, and gender parity in her administration.
By failing to defend the constitution against internal enemies, Weimar's liberals showed that they feared taking a decision more than they feared taking on their enemies.
In that case, the question went far beyond a declaration of independence; the court was asked whether and under what conditions Quebec had a right to break away from Canada, under either the Canadian constitution or international law.
The Canadian judges held that international law granted no such unilateral right (and nor did the country's own constitution).
When three members of parliament sought to question the Prime Minister – their right, under the Kuwaiti constitution – the parliament was dissolved and elections called.
With independence in 1961, these rules were codified in a constitution.
To the extent that there is a new German patriotism, it is ironic; if there is pride, it is pride in how thoroughly the country has dealt with the double legacy of Nazism and East German state socialism (in addition to pride in the economy and the constitution).
The president of Germany’s Constitutional Court openly speculates that, if more Europe is needed for technocratic reasons, it might be time for the people to vote on a new constitution.
Talk of a new, Europe-friendly constitution indicates that they might even be willing to give up what, along with the Deutschmark, was the old Federal Republic’s most prized possession: the Basic Law, arguably the world’s most successful constitution during the last half-century.
Despite passage in July of the 18th amendment to the Pakistani constitution, which restored it to the form in which it was promulgated in 1973, political and executive authority remains in the hands of President Asif Ali Zardari.
The judiciary is also more active, and is attempting to force the executive to remain within the bounds of the constitution.
Last May, the National Assembly slapped down his attempt to re-write the constitution in order to remain in office beyond the stipulated two terms.
Abe’s Long MarchTOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s coalition government has decided to “reinterpret” the postwar Japanese constitution.
According to Article 9 of the constitution, drafted by American lawyers in 1946, when Japan was under Allied occupation, Japan renounces “war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”
Abe chose to reinterpret the constitution because revising it would require the approval of two-thirds of the Japanese Diet.
More worrying is the effect on Japanese democracy: Elected governments do not simply change the meaning of the constitution without even bothering to get parliamentary support.
On the contrary, his reinterpretation of the constitution is meant to help the US in its military policing of East Asia.
Future US policy must embody a simple but powerful principle: America will engage with and support (through various kinds of foreign assistance) any government chosen through internationally monitored free and fair elections that then governs according to a popularly ratified national constitution, with compliance overseen by an independent judiciary.
There remains a type of royalism among the French, and our constitution has many features of an elective monarchy.
ANDE proposed creation of a new court by amending the constitution.
Moreover, the MB will most likely have to offer some concessions to guarantee balanced representation of Islamists and non-Islamists in the assembly that the parliament is to choose to draft a new constitution.
That could mean weakening the president’s powers and reserving some domains for the army – at least until a new constitution is adopted.
He repudiated its traditional socialist ideology, rewriting the party's constitution to remove all references to state ownership.
Yet it has features of both: Although it has its own constitution, it is a United States territory, Puerto Ricans are US citizens, and the island is subject to US federal law, except as otherwise stipulated.
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