Few if any of Labour's constitutional plans originated with Charter 88.

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Months after assuming power, he called a constitutional convention that rewrote Venezuela's charter to allow re-election.

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Scottish devolution evolved in the Scottish constitutional convention, a cross-party grouping, far away from Charter 88's Islington epicentre.

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In one of its trickiest cases, Spain's constitutional court will decide shortly whether to strike out parts of an autonomy charter, passed in 2006 by Spain's parliament and approved in a referendum by Catalonia's 5.5m voters.

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Indeed, the unpredictable congressmen might also scotch any attempt at charter change, or cha-cha, the local term for constitutional reform.

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It would be nice to believe that Labour's conversion to the cause of constitutional reform is a result of the intellectual force of the arguments advanced by Charter 88 and others.

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The arguments over constitutional reform began back in 2006 when a new assembly was elected to draft a new charter.

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"Hugo Chavez ruled Venezuela with an iron hand and his passing has left a political void that we hope will be filled peacefully and through a constitutional and democratic process, grounded in the Venezuelan constitution and adhering to the Inter-American Democratic Charter, " said Sen.

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