They argued that it breached her personal autonomy rights under the Irish constitution and the European convention on human rights.

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As part of it, Myanmar set up a national convention to prepare a new constitution.

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This may provide the blueprint for a European constitution currently being debated at an EU convention in Brussels.

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The convention was divided on whether its constitution should be ready in November, so that the country could compare the two, or whether more time should be taken and as many Zimbabweans involved as possible.

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Mr Giscard d'Estaing's people, however, hope that the convention's deliberations will give the constitution enough legitimacy and coherence to withstand revision.

ECONOMIST: The European Union's convention

Governing council head Ahmed Chalabi said the group would determine a method of selecting delegates to a constitutional convention but would not itself write the constitution.

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After the war, when the founding fathers reassembled in Philadelphia to craft the U.S. Constitution, Washington was named president of the Constitutional Convention, and he willingly served.

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That is not how things are going so far: on May 26th-27th, the convention published the first full draft of the constitution but admitted that its members are still greatly divided over the key section on reforming the EU's institutions.

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As the convention members tried to satisfy everyone, their draft constitution ended up riddled with botched compromises, anomalies and absurdities.

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It was on September 17, 1787, that 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the Constitution of the United States.

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So it is with the citizens' initiative, an idea adopted in the final days of a grandiose convention drawing up what was then called an EU constitution (becoming the Lisbon treaty after many misadventures).

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The British constitution relies on conventions, in this case something called the Salisbury convention.

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However, the draft constitution that EU leaders have been discussing, drawn up by a 105-member European Convention, is a terrible mess.

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