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Musharraf withdrew the emergency and restored the constitution, but a few days later Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi after she addressed a large election rally.
They lined up in large numbers, peacefully cast their ballots, and resoundingly rejected a flawed constitution that had been hastily forced upon them.
Billing itself as a reform government that would promote respect for human rights and the rule of law, the Kibaki government promised Kenyans a new constitution within 100 days of taking office in 2003.
The draft constitution had been many years in the making and had been crafted following extensive national consultations.
After stalling for two and a half years, the day before the draft constitution was due to expire, the government hastily pushed through Parliament an alternate draft that preserved strong presidential powers, weakened the bill of rights, and rigged the electoral percentages needed to win the presidency.
The participatory process, so critical in any constitution making, was hijacked.
Public employees were informed that the draft constitution was a government project that they had to support, and newspaper and broadcast journalists were warned that their licenses could be revoked after a radio station aired an interview with a parliamentarian who opposed Kibaki’s constitution.
More French defeats -- including abolition of the national veto that General de Gaulle enshrined in the EU constitution, and the transfer of ever more sovereignty to the EU parliament (in which Germany has the largest contingent) -- loom large on the horizon..What more Germany will demand is impossible to guess.
A new French constitution is not yet an official German demand.
The Court will begin hearing the case on July 5.Germany’s Constitutional Court has been among the most prominent in declaring what it considers to be the appropriate limits to EU integration, consistent with the country’s Basic Law (constitution).
But Germany’s Constitutional Court can judge whether the actions of EU institutions are compatible with its constitution and the European Union treaties.
The Ukrainian constitution prohibited the referendum on independence that was carried out in Crimea in the presence of Russian troops.
Wolfgang Munchau of The Financial Times thinks French rejection of the EU constitution could sink the euro.
And, now that it has, how can Russians move beyond it, to realize the rights and liberties promised to them in the country’s constitution?
Wade has been tinkering with Senegal’s constitution in dangerous ways ever since he was inaugurated in 2000.
Of the 15 changes Wade made to the constitution, ten weakened democracy; the others were erratic, if not bizarre.
The opposition would participate in, and almost certainly win, the June 2012 general election, and all of the opposition candidates have agreed that, whichever one of them wins the presidential election, the country’s super-presidential constitution should be overhauled.
The constitution says that power belongs to the people, but in reality the rights of the people belong to the Communist Party and its leaders, from whom workers and peasants receive scant attention.
By contrast, American foreign-policy formation is highly constrained by institutions like Congress, the courts, and the constitution.
Israel has long avoided drafting a constitution, because its secular citizens fear that orthodox Jews would impose their values on them.
Seen in this light, the UK’s upcoming referendum is more momentous even than the failed referenda on an EU constitution in 2005.
The Iranian economy is 80% state-owned (as provided in the revolutionary constitution - article 44) and prices of basic goods are controlled.
To grasp the nature of the problem, we need to examine how humans are made at the molecular level, and contrast our constitution with that of other species that we often call “rudimentary,” such as unicellular organisms.
Fearing that elections might bring an Islamist majority to Parliament and to the assembly that will write a new constitution, most secularists demanded supra-constitutional principles (akin to a bill of rights, with a few twists) or a constitution to be enforced by the SCAF before elections.
The SCAF announced that it is forming a body of constitutional experts to craft several versions of a potential constitution.
At the moment, Egyptian liberals’ main concern should be their popular appeal and ability to mobilize support, rather than picking fights with the Salafis and trying to enforce a constitution by any means, democratic or not.
During its transition period (1988-1991), Algeria’s secularists crafted a pluralist constitution that excluded religious parties.
Yet, when parliamentary elections were held in 1991 – more than two years after the constitution was adopted – the Islamic Salvation Front still won.
Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.
This is a dangerous state of affairs for those on either side of the Atlantic who believe in the values of the enlightenment and in the constitution of liberty.
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