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Alvarado, who is just 38, is attempting to create a new presidential model for Costa Rica, without changing the constitution, by drawing ministers from a range of parties.
They point to pivotal moments when the left took advantage of Britain’s lack of a written constitution to expropriate private medical business and create its National Health Service and other such institutions.
Indeed, the PiS, a party that claims to place national solidarity above all else – even the constitution – has brought about a situation in which only Poland is standing against a Pole.
Meanwhile, sound monetary policy, guided by a series of talented central bankers (whose independence is enshrined in Chile’s constitution), has prevented inflation and kept long-term rates relatively low.
Under Chile’s constitution, she cannot serve another consecutive term.
A generally comprehensible constitution with a cogent preamble describing the Union's purpose and core ideas, and which defines the basic institutions of the Union, their areas of competence and mutual relations, is essential to stimulating broad public consent and support.
All the EU's other documents would, of course, still remain valid as regular law or norms, but these, of course, need not become required reading for European children as the constitution should be.
A common principal, declaration, charter, basic law, or even a constitution with an adequate preamble could - in my opinion - significantly help each and every European to realize the deeper meanings behind European unification.
Obama averred that American citizens “are subject to the protections of the constitution and due process.”
Expansion and Democracy in EuropeEurope is poised on the rim of two nearly revolutionary undertakings: eastward expansion and the possibility of a draft constitution for the European Union.
Of course, the meaning of the constitution is always contested, and it would be naive to believe that non-partisan appeals to it will immediately deter him.
The problem is that the French referendum on the EU constitution in 2005 vetoed further political integration, while further economic integration may now fail because of Germany.
Otherwise, the referendum to ratify the government’s proposed “MAS (Movement for Socialism) constitution” will only fuel more strife.
Kim has already enshrined North Korea’s nuclear-weapons status in the country’s constitution and erected monuments to the long-range missiles launched last year.
The ESS was developed in the aftermath of the Iraq war, amid heated debate over a proposed European constitution, in a hasty and reactive process hijacked by those who sought to position Europe as a counterweight – or even a rival power – to the United States.
Almost a quarter believe that the constitution will be changed so that Putin can have a third term.
In Britain’s unwritten constitution, there is only one limitation on the power of a prime minister with a parliamentary majority – the right of voters to change their minds.
And, while the constitution protects a citizen’s “right to life,” it makes an exception when the termination of a life is “in execution of the sentence of a court.”
But the framers of South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution, which entered into force in 1997, held their ground and the practice was abolished.
Should the constitution establish a presidential or parliamentary system?
Upon achieving independence in 1956, Tunisia adopted a French-style republican constitution that established a presidential system of government.
Germany’s Constitutional Court has not waived its right to the final word about whether European institutions’ actions are compatible with the German constitution.
If it finds that the ECJ is interpreting the treaty in a way that violates the German constitution, it has the power to force the German government and parliament to renegotiate the treaty or ask for a referendum.
Ortega’s re-election to a third term, prohibited by Nicaragua’s constitution, completes the last stage of a “coup from above,” in which a government that came to power as a democratically elected political minority in 2006, uses its control of state institutions – the courts and electoral machinery, in particular – to undermine the rule of law.
That path of evasion is reinforced by the nature of the political system created after the 19 th century Meiji restoration and that, notwithstanding the post-war constitution, has survived to our day.
They refused to write a constitution permitting power to be concentrated in the hands of a leader legitimized by the emperor.
The Meiji political system and the bureaucrats survived the postwar purges and the imposition of an American-drafted constitution.
France is the only European country to proclaim its secular nature in its constitution, whereas Germany’s Basic Law refers to God and the Irish Constitution to the Holy Trinity.
And, until Tony Blair struck it out in 1995, Clause 4 of the party’s constitution still promised “common ownership of the means of production” and “popular control” of industry.
In the case of Mexico, for example, opening up the electricity industry, which Mexico's constitution reserves to the government, has become the structural reform of the day demanded by the West.
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