The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are.
Responsibility for the information that we have transmitted today and for any further action now lie with the Congress as provided for by the Constitution.
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Most notably, it began treating Israel's Basic Laws, a sort of partial constitution, as if they were a real constitution, and has used them as a basis for junking other laws.
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After all, she is a lawyer, and she, too, invariably invokes the Constitution as the authority for smaller government.
The requirement for ratification of treaties by two-thirds of the Senate was seen by the framers of the Constitution as an important quality-control device for diplomatic initiatives.
He fought as all those did for our country and our Constitution.
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Germany's domestic intelligence service, a postwar creation known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or Verfassungsschutz, is broadly comparable to the intelligence wing of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
As for the wrangling over who will write the new constitution, Moussa said it is not of crucial importance.
In 1989, a Kentucky high court ruled that the constitution did allow death sentences for defendants as young as 16.
President Mohamed Mursi earlier this month suspended a series of planned tax increases as the country prepared for a referendum on a contentious new constitution, which was passed on December 22.
Earlier this year these two countries used this achievement as a justification for hosting a special summit of friends of the constitution in Madrid.
Did the voters of old Europe turn against the grand political design for the EU, as manifested in the now-rejected constitution, because they recoiled from being governed by a superstate out of Brussels?
Also, in a new twist that analysts say illustrates the discord among the Republican party, Republican Senator John McCain, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, took to the Senate floor to criticise House Republicans who continue to push for a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution as the price of raising the debt ceiling.
As the Constitution of UNESCO reminds us, solidarity cannot be taken for granted.
For one thing, as a direct democracy, with a confederal constitution, Switzerland prides itself on its tradition of rule by the people.
On Saturday, Mr Ghannouchi had called on the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) to "complete the constitution as soon as possible and thus pave the way for free and fair elections".
But as Egypt's newly elected Parliament drafts a constitution and prepares for presidential elections, it is unclear whether the military will be able to continue to wield the same type of foreign-policy influence.
Now he is shifting power to the Yugoslav federal presidency, a supposedly ceremonial job he was obliged to take last July because the constitution prevented him from running for a third term as president of Serbia.
Some opposition politicians and educationalists want to gather signatures for a referendum to repeal the law, as is allowed under the constitution.
That does not necessarily mean changing Russia's constitution to remain in office for a third term, as a burble of supplications from regional politicians is urging.
Today, I call upon the Congress to promptly pass and to send to the states for ratification an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
Several members of the committee drafting Iraq's constitution say they've agreed to extend the deadline for as long as 10 days.
In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.
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At least those polled clearly understand that establishing an official religion for their state would require a constitutional amendment as only 11 percent believe the Constitution currently allows a state to establish an official religion while 58 percent do not believe it to be constitutional.
On Saturday a Kurdish member of parliament was assassinated as he returned to Baghdad for a session of the National Assembly to finalize the Iraqi constitution.
In addition, North Dakota's Republican-dominated legislature last week set up a voter referendum for November 2014 which seeks to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception.
The Constitution provides the federal government with few specific powers, such as providing for the common defense, regulating commerce, and taxation, which we know all too well this time of year.
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Under the constitution, Musharraf couldn't run for another term while serving both as president and military leader.
Point out that the U.S. Constitution does specify a system for the election of the president, known as the Electoral College.
The trouble with this legalism, as has been often pointed out, is that the constitution lays down no precise standard for impeachment.
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