The army may have doomed Thailand to further cycles of constitution, crisis and coup.
President Morsi temporarily gave himself sweeping new powers last month, and pushed ahead a referendum on a controversial new constitution, sparking a political crisis.
If the majority will of the people says that, despite this Constitution, we want a political solution to the national crisis, as proposed by this government, then the Constitution becomes invalid -- morally and politically.
Cherry-picking the constitution is not in any case a response to the crisis of legitimacy revealed by these votes.
Times of crisis, however, do not justify departure from the Constitution.
Next to all this, Mr Hollande, a Socialist hack who led a fractious party for 11 years and has never had a ministerial job, is a debutant: his biggest crisis was a 2005 party split over the draft European Union constitution.
Honduras is now in the fifth week of a constitutional crisis that was provoked when then-president Zelaya violated the Honduran constitution.
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But the Portuguese had hoped that if national leaders signed the treaty in person, the symbolism of the event would draw a line under the crisis provoked in 2005, when French and Dutch voters rejected the original constitution.
We now have a constitutional crisis precisely because President Obama has clearly claimed powers contrary to those granted in the constitution.
The danger is that the Senate trial, instead of settling the political crisis in the Philippines, will lead to even greater turmoil for which the constitution does not seem to offer a legal and peaceful solution.
In 1958, at a time of deep crisis for the country, he returned, first as prime minister and later, having changed the constitution, as president.
The constitution is ambiguous about how binding the transitional deadlines are: failure to abide by them does not necessarily mean a crisis.
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