Republicans favor an approach that mirrors the language of the Constitution -- counting each person.
Tensions have intensified since an Islamist-backed constitution - criticised for failing to protect key rights - was adopted in December.
After the entry of Bulgaria and Romania, the union has 27 members, compared with 15 when the constitution-writing game began.
However, if it is rejected, the December parliamentary elections will have to be followed by a fresh round of constitution-drafting.
He describes the process of drafting the constitution -- there was a committee that referred to the constitutions of the world.
Lands Minister Amos Kimunya - who supports the proposed constitution - says it addresses land injustices imposed on Kenyans by the colonial government.
That proposal calls for a vote on an amendment to the US constitution - a move certain to be rejected by the Senate.
Finally, a new Slovak government will have to consider the country's constitution - especially the role of the presidency, which has lain vacant since March.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will launch a 12-week consultation on the proposed changes to the constitution - the formal statement of patients' rights - on Monday.
For people who are supposed to be attached to the Constitution-- which gives priority to that federal responsibility-- this seems to be a most curious oversight.
The most important post-conflict step towards the further development of a common national identity would be the instigation of a constitution-drafting process that involved all Iraq's different communities.
Observers from the African Union (AU) and European Union said the election process - the first under a new constitution - had been credible so far, despite the problems.
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For instance, for history it says pupils should understand the emergence of an independent United States and its constitution - accompanied with a stricture to respect its ethnic and cultural diversity.
The opposition boycotted Mr Maduro's swearing-in on Friday, claiming that - under the constitution - the speaker of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, should be the one to take over as acting president.
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The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.
If so, it is time for those sworn to uphold our Constitution - law enforcement agencies, the courts and the executive and legislative branches - to monitor such activities and, where appropriate, take corrective action.
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The Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, writes in the Observer today that Britain needs a written constitution - a document that formally limits the power of politicians and enshrines the supremacy of the citizen.
Labour had looked at having a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities as the basis of a written constitution - the then Justice Secretary Jack Straw believed a written statement of "common values" would help social cohesion.
Opponents are also seeking to have the amendment nullified, arguing that it alters the state's constitution -- meaning the state Supreme Court's May ruling -- and therefore, according to state law, is a revision that requires a constitutional convention.
Second, net neutrality proponents pushed FCC regulations over the strong Constitutional objections of both Congress and the Courts, whereas opponents of online piracy are working through, and within, the Constitution-authorized Congressional legislative process to devise a court-injunction process that ensures Constitutional due process.
So confident is Milosevic of his political and territorial gains that he is in the process of drafting a new Yugoslav constitution -- designed swiftly to codify the "voluntary" association of Serbian-dominated entities, by means of what might be termed an "All-Union Treaty" for Yugoslavia.
The members of the European Council have demonstrated in Brussels that they have fallen into a period of stupor following the French and Dutch "No" votes to the Constitution - if stupor is what is understood by a decrease in the activity of higher intellectual functions...
And although Lord Wakeham has a reputation as a fixer rather than a radical, his first consultation paper, published last week, surprised some constitution-watchers by posing more searching questions than expected such as whether there is a case, not broached in the white paper, for giving the upper house extra powers as a constitutional watchdog.
The United States has the oldest democracy in the world, but we constantly have to, as citizens, work to make sure that it is working to include everybody, to make sure that the freedoms that are in our Constitution -- the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship -- that those are practiced and observed.
On one hand, it's a place where the institutions of statehood--constitution, courts, parties--were designed in the 1950s by people who had recently suffered raw discrimination.
Further south, Zimbabwe did not have Kenya's queues but a referendum on a new constitution passed off with overwhelming support from all parties - including President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF - a constitution that will now limit presidential rule to two five-year terms amongst other nuggets of democratic expression.
His thesis - Constitution and Constitutional Treaty: Constitutional Developments in the US and EU - was completed in 2006 and published in 2009.
We would be hard-pressed to devise a theory under which the U.S. Constitution precludes state-level insurance mandates.
But The Atlanta Journal-Constitution finds Dead Man's Chest, absolutely irresistible, and The Chicago Tribune cheers, The most satisfying big-screen excuse for overpriced popcorn, so far this summer.
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Mr. ElBaradei described the document, which would be replaced later by a longer-term constitution, as "short" and focused on human-rights guarantees.
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