Britain will discover that it has a constitutional court in the form of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, an obscure body that will be called upon to adjudicate the inevitable and possibly bitter tests of strength between the various parliaments and assemblies.

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They hope that a grassroots movement will swell behind the effort and lead to action, although it remains unclear whether it would take the form or a law or a constitutional amendment.

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Mr Correa's nominees seem sure to form a majority on a powerful new Constitutional Court.

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Giving those overlapping identities constitutional form can be one way to stabilise a diverse country.

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The recipient in April of a grant in the form of a lifetime achievement award from the Lehrman Institute, he is writing a book on the constitutional dollar, forthcoming from Basic Books.

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But they say because it originated in the Senate, it violates a constitutional requirement that revenue bills first pass the House, and therefore it couldn't become law in its current form.

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