Before Gadhafi's coup in 1969, Libya was a constitutional monarchy with a parliament, constitution and king.
The fact that Colombia has been able to face these challenges and remain a constitutional democracy is a miracle.
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Immigrant detainees are the only group of prisoners in America who do not have a constitutional right to a free, government-appointed lawyer.
Botros was a rebel, though within limits: he thought the collapsing Ottoman empire could be saved as a constitutional monarchy, a state composed of many nations.
'Generally speaking, when confronting a constitutional flaw in a statute, we try to limit the solution to the problem, severing any 'problematic portions while leaving the remainder intact.
Mr Cardoso owes his re-election not just to his defeat of inflation, but to his getting Congress to undo a constitutional ban on a second, consecutive term for holders of executive posts.
From there his route to power was typical of the times: freedom rallies, imprisonment by the British authorities, release, tea with the governor, a constitutional conference and a flattering independence ceremony conducted by a British royal.
England at the time could in no sense be described as a democracy, but the idea of accountability was entrenched at all levels of society by centuries of the common law, creating the political conditions for a constitutional monarchy and a dynamic economy.
As a general impetus to speed up the course of justice, citizens would also have a constitutional right to a reasonably speedy hearing, as is enshrined in the constitutions of Mexico and Portugal, although how effective this would prove to be in practice remains open to doubt.
If the Supreme Court declares a constitutional right to marriage other than one-man, one-woman, then all traditional marriage laws in all 50 states will be invalid, and there will be a serious debate (already in a lower federal court) of whether polygamists also have a constitutional right to national recognition.
That way, they hope, a strong contingent of Sunnis will win seats in the chamber and work to amend the constitution. (A simple majority of deputies can put a constitutional amendment to a referendum.) The hope is that the process can create a coherent Sunni nationalist movement with credible leaders, working in the political mainstream.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who is currently conducting his own "National Conversation" on Scotland's constitutional future, dismissed the report as a "constitutional mouse" at a time when he said the powers to build a "lion economy" were needed.
That difficulty is troubling, but not fatal, not least because we are interpreting the scope of a long-established constitutional power, not recognizing a new constitutional right.
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His government prepared for negotiations by pushing through a constitutional amendment setting out a legal framework for peace.
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It neither sets up a new constitutional order nor a supranational state.
As a constitutional reform it is a legacy of the coalition government.
Concentrating on such practical matters would also enable it to leave the really difficult questions about a new constitutional settlement for a later date.
By then, campaigners for a northern assembly hope to have completed their scheme to set up a constitutional convention to devise a plan for northern regional government.
He won re-election in April 2009 after voters approved a constitutional rewrite that mandated a new ballot, and he would be legally barred from running again following a victory Sunday.
Of course, passing an amendment and getting it ratified by the states would take years, but Gephardt insists that reform in the short term is necessary and that his embrace of a constitutional amendment is not a diversion.
After more talks in South Africa, the ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change at least agreed on a constitutional amendment providing for a new post of prime minister, to be held by the MDC's leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Of course, to do so, Aristide would have to disregard a constitutional prohibition against such a possibility and his repeated promises not to run again -- centerpieces of the Clinton Administration's case that a U.S. intervention in Haiti would lead to democratic rule.
And he favors a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced budget.
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Now girls must be given full access to schooling and literacy as a constitutional right, which is a powerful tool to combat violence against women.
Mr Gbagbo has admitted publicly that a constitutional amendment barring anyone with a foreign parent from standing for president had been aimed specifically to thwart Mr Ouattara.
Whether in the past it was clear that the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, was following the Chavista blueprint in domestic politics by initiating a constitutional assembly and by promoting a revolutionary socialist regime, it was not at all clear as to what kind of foreign policy he would pursue.
"They failed to show a single constitutional violation much less a widespread pattern or practice, " Ms. Grossman said.
Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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The new law will overturn what had been a constitutional guarantee for civil servants of a job for life, says the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens.
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Without the Electoral College, we would need rules or a constitutional amendment to have runoffs if a candidate does not get, say, 40% or 50% of the popular vote.
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