Opposition leader Tony Abbott said that constitutional recognition for the indigenous peoples was long overdue.

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Over golf and dinner in the weeks before Calgary, he had lobbied most of the nine to call for constitutional recognition of Quebec's distinctiveness.

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The voters rejected, in the same referendum, a new preamble for the constitution written by him which would have given constitutional recognition to indigenous Australians for the first time.

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Cynics agree, not so much out of faith in constitutional propriety as in recognition of the dire state of the economy.

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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.

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And as a consequence of Greek opposition to recognition of Macedonia by its own constitutional name as the Republic of Macedonia, when the representatives of the Skopje government took their seats at the United Nations after some delay in 1993, they sat behind a name plate referring to the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, or Fyrom for short.

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