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By inserting into a country’s constitution restrictions on, say, the ability of governments to run deficits, or suspend currency convertibility, these decisions are effectively stripped from the normal horse-trading of politics.
If politicians want to override or undermine such provisions, they must either change the constitution or flaunt it -- neither of which are particularly attractive options because the stakes are so high.
Creating an "economic constitution" that minimizes political interference in core economic functions is the most reliable way to make certain that markets function freely and fairly.
The very idea still incites howls of protest in Asia - not least in Japan, where popular attachment to the country's postwar "peace" constitution remains powerful.
Both are conservative and nationalistic, advocating the revision of the constitution and an assertive political and military role for Japan abroad.
And this is to say nothing of the structural faults that continue to impede political progress – a defective constitution, censored media, and a partisan security and military establishment.
Out of the ashes of war a new kind of Europe arose, as did a new kind of Japan, which even had a pacifist constitution (written by idealistic Americans, but gratefully accepted by most Japanese).
A similar majority of the Thai electorate voted for Thaksin’s parties and their pro-poor populist platforms in January 2001, February 2005, April 2006, and December 2007, defying a military coup, a coup-induced constitution, judicial interventions, and army coercion and repression.
A new constitution and elections invariably ensued.
Most importantly, Lagos leaves office having erased from the constitution the dictator’s signature.
The new constitution eliminated the so-called “authoritarian enclaves” by subordinating the armed forces to civilian rule and removing their designated senators from Parliament.
The Weimar constitution, designed by some of the day’s most insightful and ethical experts (including Max Weber), was near-perfect.
During their occupation of Japan in the 1940’s, Americans wrote a new pacifist constitution, which made the use of Japanese military force abroad unconstitutional.
Some of those in the army-installed National Reform Council and Constitutional Drafting Committee have a real interest in ensuring that Thailand's next constitution – the 20th since 1932 – will be genuinely democratic.
This is why Germany decided in 2009 to enshrine strict fiscal rules in its constitution.
According to Kuwait’s constitution, the new ruler has one year to appoint a crown prince, but he has to appoint a prime minister immediately.
Freedom of expression and of the press are guaranteed by Turkey’s constitution and statutes.
Yet in recent years – during the decade since their spectacular rejection of a treaty establishing an EU constitution – the Dutch have increasingly felt the need to celebrate their past glory in the most traditional manner.
In America’s view, the reinterpretation of Article 9 of Japan’s “peace constitution” that Abe undertook – thereby allowing Japan’s self-defense forces to aid allies under attack and to assist the US and other allies in meeting their commitments to securing Asia’s peace – was long overdue.
In Nepal – a strategic buffer between India and restive Tibet, where China claims to be at “war against secessionist sabotage” – political disarray persists, with political parties bickering over a new constitution.
These leaders are less concerned with the reform agenda than with promoting patriotism among Japanese youth, upgrading the Defense Agency to a ministry, and enacting a law to permit a referendum to revise the pacifist constitution.
Though the constitution imposed by the junta prevents her from serving officially as president, she holds the real power in the current government led by her National League for Democracy, which secured a landslide victory in last year’s general election.
Of course, there is no guarantee that Burma’s democratic transition will succeed; after all, beyond barring Suu Kyi from the presidency, the junta’s constitution reserves all of the "power" cabinet posts for the military.
Today, the ruling military junta is systematically cracking down on dissent; it has banned Thaksin-aligned politicians from entering politics, and is trying to impose a new constitution.
A country at peace with itself and its neighbors, with a constitution upholding basic human rights and the rule of law, was the desire of almost everyone.
As Iraq moved through progressive phases of mismanagement over the subsequent ten agonizing years, the country fractured, shattering the dreams of Iraqis who saw their beloved homeland once again sliding toward authoritarianism, with almost daily violations of the constitution.
Today, the very human rights that were guaranteed by the constitution are being violated, with a politicized judiciary routinely abused and manipulated in order to justify the prime minister’s actions.
He was barred from the ballot by a provision in the 1985 Guatemalan constitution that prohibited people who had participated in military coups from serving as head of state.
A dramatic book that was published just before the referendum on the constitution sheds light on who is behind these machinations.
The amended constitution expands the constitutional court and the supreme council of judges and prosecutors.
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