Mr Riordan has made reforming the city's constitution one of the main tasks of his second administration.
The city's antiquated constitution puts a great deal of power into the council's hands.
When City Hall underwent renovations, the Constitution was transferred to the Department of State.
The lawsuit was filed by attorney Michael Rebell, who successfully argued in a previous landmark case that the state had been violating the constitution by shortchanging New York City students.
These are all owned and financed by the city council, since, under the German constitution, culture is the responsibility of the individual states (of which Berlin is one), not the federal government.
Permission denied, he said, by Mexico City, because of Article 41, a provision of the Mexican constitution that forbids the diffusion of government propaganda during an election-campaign period.
Furthermore, many signers were agrarians hostile to city life, industry, commerce, finance and (later) even the Constitution.
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The Supreme Court, which gave the green light to Mexico City's abortion law, is mulling whether its gay weddings infringe the constitution.
But city Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said the products themselves aren't similarly shielded by the Constitution.
In the wake of that ruling, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered his city clerk to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, saying the California constitution also did not allow such distinctions to be made.
Key figures I have met, like the head of the local council of Libya's western city of Zuwara, Tariq al-Atoushi, warned that they would wholly reject a constitution that does not recognise their language and identity.
And yet, despite the fact that the Constitution does not specifically grant the federal government the power to bail out a city devastated by Mother Nature, these very same people are now finding that they currently see the issue very differently.
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