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Vatican officials explained that the change was partly due to the fact that the church constitution was written principally for a conclave following the death of a pope, rather than a resignation.
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The first came last autumn when the AKP was trying to patch together a new constitution to replace the one written by the generals in the 1980s.
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After the interminable rows that marred the EU summit in Nice in 2000, it was realised that the expanding Union needed a written constitution.
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After winning numerous elections since his party first swept to power in 2002, Erdogan appears to have a popular mandate under Turkey's constitution, which was written by a military junta in the 1980s.
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That is the way it was meant to be when the German constitution was written after the war, with the Americans having a strong hand on the pen.
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The idea was pioneered by the United States, the first modern democracy with a written constitution.
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The Constitution deliberately was written to be a firewall to prevent power grabs just like this.
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Mr Benn's Commonwealth of Britain Bill - introduced in 1991, was the last attempt to legislate a written constitution.
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With almost no Sunni deputies in parliament, the constitution was written largely over the heads of a group that is some 20% of Iraq's population though Sunni representatives were later invited into the process by the majority Shia Arabs (around 60% of the population) and the Kurds (some 20%).
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When the Constitution was written, no one thought to put in a provision stating that able bodied, working age adults had a responsibility to support themselves and their children.
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Dower is also very good at detailing the genesis of the American-written Japanese Constitution, which, he says, was partly a means to head off other drafts, some from the Japanese, that would have abolished the monarchy.
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