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Egypt’s Monster in the MakingBRUSSELS – On December 15, Egypt’s draft constitution is due to be put to a referendum.
A year ago, Egyptians were thrilled to know that finally their country’s constitution would reflect their democratic hopes and aspirations.
While the draft constitution does contain positive provisions, many are causing concern.
Some suggest that the US constitution provided fewer constraints on the president in the conduct of foreign policy, because the requisite checks and balances were to be provided by the powers of the time - Britain and France.
Spain’s government argues that the upcoming independence vote in Catalonia is illegal under the Spanish constitution.
Maduro, who recently gained a second six-year term as president in what most observers judged to be a sham election, has created a new constituent assembly (to bypass the opposition-controlled National Assembly) that is writing a new constitution that would further cement dictatorship.
The latest source of contention - both on the domestic front and in relations with the mainland - concerns whether to write a new constitution.
Enacted in Nanjing before the Chiang Kai-chek's Kuomintang government resettled in Taipei after the Chinese Civil War of the 1940's, Taiwan's constitution is considered by some an anachronism, unfit for a democracy with a population of over 23 million.
Of course, Taiwan's parlous relations with China have suffered further as a result, with China's government denouncing calls for a new constitution as a calculated move towards independence.
Consequently, in his inauguration speech on May 20, Chen promised to amend the constitution via the current mechanism, rather than adopting an entirely new constitution via referendum.
China fears that the government still wants to write a new constitution - one from which Taiwanese independence would be derived.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken a more nationalistic stance than most of his predecessors, and his Liberal Democratic Party is committed to revising Article 9 of the constitution, which limits Japan’s forces to self-defense.
Nonetheless, many astute analysts believe that the constitution will be amended within the coming decade.
Under Japan’s constitution, neither the country’s self-defense forces nor the police would have had legal grounds to travel overseas to rescue endangered Japanese citizens.
That is why Abe is determined to amend, or at least reinterpret, Japan’s constitution to allow for the kinds of defense maneuvers that other countries, from Israel to India, employ when their people are threatened.
As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once put it, a constitution is not a suicide pact.
He saw how his fellow law students, none of whom were Nazis, came to accept each step – racial laws, abrogation of the constitution, and so on – precisely because they were couched in legal terms.
Three years after the start of their revolutions, neither country has been able to draft a broadly acceptable constitution.
A new constitution, proposed by the king and adopted in a referendum in July 2011, has already generated robust political competition.
In a few cases, fiscal councils might impose conditions that are even more stringent than current EU rules stipulate, but they would be limited to enforcing the structural balance that each signatory of the fiscal compact has enshrined in its constitution or in equally binding legislation.
They relentlessly but unsuccessfully pressured Montenegro’s leaders to remain in a dysfunctional union with Serbia, condoned Kostunica’s dubious 2006 referendum on a new constitution enshrining Kosovo as a part of Serbia, and weakened demands for Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
But Bolivia’s constitutional court has ruled that he can, because the adoption of a new constitution redefined the country as the Plurinational State of Bolivia;Morales, therefore, served his first term as the head of a different state.
Brazil is not the kind of country where a president can manipulate the constitution or close newspapers at will.
He was contemptuous of parliament, whose circumscribed powers were set forth in a constitution that he boasted of never having read.
Because Tudjman created a highly-centralized political system with vast prerogatives vested in the president, the opposition's best bet was to stick together in hope of mustering the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
Unless the constitution and the political system is reformed, kleptocracy checked, and relations with the West mended, Tudjman-era themes may continue.
Of course, the head of state – whether the president or the monarch – has other critical duties as well, including acting as guarantor of the constitution and a symbol of national unity.
Under Pakistan’s constitution, a convicted felon cannot serve in the national and provincial assemblies.
They were obliged to act as required by the constitution to remove the prime minister.
All of these steps were clearly specified in the 1973 constitution, drafted under the watch of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the Pakistan People’s Party, which is now back in power, under the stewardship of Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto’s son-in-law.
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