Nobody has been able to state clearly the constitutional rule that would forbid Mr Fujimori being a candidate for a third term.
The international community -- including West African states, the African Union and the United States -- called for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule.
Twice in the past three years diplomats from Brazil, Argentina and the United States have had to intervene to preserve constitutional rule in Paraguay.
The international community -- including West African states, the African Union and the United States -- has called for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule.
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Both bodies also condemned the formation of a transitional council, with the West African states decrying the military junta for reneging on an agreement to return to constitutional rule.
General Rios Montt returned to the political limelight when he ran for president in 2003, despite a constitutional rule that no-one who had overthrown a government could stand for the presidency.
France, which sent more than 4, 000 troops to Mali in January to try to free the north, has been aggressively pushing for a quick election in the hopes of restoring the country's constitutional rule.
In September, though, they will see the ECB probably unveil its bond-buying plan and a German constitutional court rule on the ESM emergency mechanism.
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Its foundation is a healthy respect for property rights and a constitutional-based rule of law.
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Milosevic had asked the country's Constitutional Court to rule to declare the extradition unconstitutional.
Attorneys for the former Yugoslav president asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the decree and to declare it unconstitutional.
Later this month or early next the Constitutional Court will rule on the validity of a law that would clear Mr Uribe's path.
Senators voted for the constitutional court to rule whether he had committed treason over a number of acts, including a New Year's Day general amnesty which sparked great controversy.
However, Baduel in a declaration a month later explained that he was committed to the constitutional order and the rule of law.
Only the blessed accident of a hung parliament (in which neither main party will have a working majority) at the next or some future election can lead to reforms of parliamentary practice, to greater accountability and to the constitutional checks on minority parliamentary rule that Britain now lacks.
In its ruling Thursday, the nation's highest court could rule the whole law constitutional or unconstitutional, or strike down certain portions of the law while letting other provisions stand.
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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.
The court's judges had earlier accused John Hlophe, a controversial judge who presides over the high court in the Western Cape, of trying to lean on two members of the constitutional court to persuade them to rule in favour of Mr Zuma.
The Shiites and Sunnis have thus far been unable to put their ancient hatreds aside in order to work together to create a rule-of-law constitutional democracy.
Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.
The Supreme Court is due to rule soon on whether it is constitutional to establish quotas at Brazil's universities for different ethnic groups, in a decision that pits the melting-pot view of Brazilian history against the quilombola view.
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But Mr Cash, speaking to the amendment tabled jointly by Labour and a number of Tory backbenchers to remove the need for a two-thirds majority to force an early election, said the rule ran "contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our parliament first sat".
The answer is a fiddly, technical rule change secured by MEPs during the constitutional convention.
The fear is that their statement may have made an impact on the constitutional court, which now has been asked to rule on whether these elections are valid or not.
Inscribed on the International UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 2009, the Charter established the right to free and fair trial, limits upon taxation, and the subjection of all citizens to the rule of law, amongst other fundamental constitutional principles that today are almost universally applied worldwide.
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He was less clear about whether he thought it was constitutional, claiming that he would force the courts to rule on the issue.
Swecker, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit relied on this same language to find that a Virginia rule restricting alcohol ads in college newspapers was constitutional.
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However, last week Judge George Caram Steeh of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan did rule on the merits when he dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
If not, they should always rule that taking such an action is breaking the constitutional promise to the American people.
Indian laws allow an elected federal government to recommend the dismissal of a state government, but leaves the power to impose direct federal rule on the president, the country's constitutional head.
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