Facing urgent challenges unencumbered by old conventions, leaders of common stock and uncommon vision crafted a bold new constitutional framework.
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The practices of the Law Lords may seem antiquated, but they operate within a wider constitutional framework which is peculiar to Britain.
As the Commonwealth is a voluntary association with no formal constitutional framework, members work in the understanding that they fully commit to its values.
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This is just too broad to fit into our constitutional framework.
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But that time frame now seems unlikely, analysts say, opening up the prospect that a new president is elected without a clear constitutional framework by which to govern, or checks on his powers.
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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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In the case of Ecuador, a constitutional reform could have made sense in the framework of political reform aimed at increasing relations between constituencies and elected officials, changing the current system of party-rule (partidocracia) and ensuring that all sectors are properly represented within the system.
The polls see Libyans elect a 200-member Constitutional Assembly, which will draft a constitution setting out a political framework for the country after more than four decades of rule under Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya's interim "constitutional declaration, " drawn up by the NTC to provide a framework for the transition to an elected government, pledged that the state would protect the linguistic and cultural rights of "all components" of Libyan society.
The general framework is straightforward and certainly well-known to those who have studied (let alone taught) constitutional law.
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