In our limited, constitutional republic, the pecking order for a public response is first local government, and then state.
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The Founders disdained both democracy and monarchy, crafting instead a constitutional republic.
Another half-year later, in January 1999, the Centennial festivities will conclude with the 100th anniversary of the first Philippine - and Asian - constitutional republic.
And tonight, we have recognized and we have honored a man that at this important time in the history of this two hundred and thirty-five year, the longest running Constitutional republic that the world has ever known, you have been entrusted to be a keeper of that flame at this time.
Also, having a large, geographically wide republic and constitutional limits on the powers of government, complete with two branches of legislature, was supposed to prevent a tyranny of the majority from ever appearing.
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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.
The Irish Republic also dropped its constitutional claim to the six counties which form Northern Ireland.
The unionists could claim that they had seen off unification by getting the Republic of Ireland to drop its constitutional claim on the six counties.
As president, he will represent the Czech Republic abroad and appoint candidates to the constitutional court and the central bank, but the post does not carry much day-to-day power.
The Venezuelan constitution states that "should a total absence of the President of the Republic occur within the first four years of the constitutional period, the authorities shall proceed to an election within the next 30 days".
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"On my initiative, the Constitutional Court will be called on to decide on the conformity of the 2013 state budget with the constitution of the republic, " he said.
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