By choosing an avowed republican from Sydney, Tasmania has gone further than any other Australian state in modernising this anachronistic constitutional position.
The constitutional position is clear: Mr Saakashvili has another year to go.
Whilst Northern Ireland's constitutional position is particular, the Games have provided plenty of examples of how elastic a concept national identity can be.
The tiny Channel Island of Sark has a unique constitutional position: part of Britain, but not the UK, it is still held as a fief on behalf of the Queen.
Hanging over all this, of course, is the constitutional position of Wales within the UK. Does the Welsh political class want to get itself into a position where it is demanding significant extra revenues from England by virtue of its hilly terrain and rainy climate?
It said the interests of the crown dependencies needed to be considered routinely in all areas of UK policy-making and legislation likely to affect them and that departments needed to be made aware of the constitutional position of the islands, their essential independence from the UK and their independence from each other.
Georgia recently offered Abkhazia a deal that included full autonomy, a veto on legislation and constitutional changes and a guaranteed position as vice-president.
She added that Labour's position was that "a constitutional change of this level of importance does require a referendum".
That is hardly the best position from which to force the constitutional crisis that Mr Menem's candidacy would have entailed.
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When he swept to power with an unprecedented two-thirds majority in parliament last year, he quickly pushed through several constitutional amendments strengthening the prime minister's position.
If the government is considered corrupt and doesn't fulfill its constitutional tasks, then ABRI can take a different position.
Mr. GOLDSMITH: In a way, only the president can force the Congress to live up to their constitutional responsibilities and force them to take accountability for a position on these important issues.
But this position should not be viewed in isolation from the broader constitutional order established by the Basic Law.
But our position in terms of what needs to happen, the constitutional reforms, the lifting of the emergency law, the release of political prisoners, those positions still pertain.
On Monday he touted his antiabortion views a position he defended during the debate and support for a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.
Italy's constitutional court is being asked to rule whether documents Pollari wants to use to clarify his position and defend himself are admissible in court and whether prosecutors investigating the case violated state secrecy rules.
"If Romney pushes hard the same meme the GOP leaders are pushing, he looks like a complete flip-flopper, " Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, " said before Romney revealed his position in interviews on Wednesday.
Either way, in the aftermath of the pivotal role they have played in the latest "constitutional" crisis, the former Soviet security establishment and its allies will certainly be in a position to dictate key elements of policy to Boris Yeltsin under no illusions about his still-precarious political position.
"U.S. law would likely grant someone in Mr. Assange's position asylum, " said Baher Azmy, legal director of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing him.
But since lying about sex is not an act involved using his official position against the state, as Nixon did, Democrats say Clinton's sins do not reach the constitutional standard for impeachment.
And that is, is it possible for a sizeable portion of the Pashtun population in Afghanistan that may be teetering back and forth between Taliban or a central government, is it possible for them to feel that their ethnicity, their culture, their numerical position in the country is adequately represented, and can they do that within the context of a broader constitutional Afghan government.
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