In principle, most democratic nations have constitutions that bind the behavior of government officials.
All euro countries must include it in their national laws, ideally in their constitutions.
None, so far: its members are too busy navel-gazing at institutions, constitutions and the like.
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Constitutions have a habit of coming in twos, so that might be a feasible answer.
But the trouble with constitutions is that they must mean exactly what they say.
Thirty states ban same-sex marriage in their state constitutions, while ten states bar them under state laws.
It was familiar to them as part of English constitutional practice, and was part of many state constitutions.
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Moreover, reforms are hard to implement, because many countries designed their constitutions to shield police from politicians' meddling.
Sixteen state Constitutions protect the right to an abortion and an additional five states have laws that do so.
Most states in the South have amended their constitutions fewer than 100 times.
Both the Greek and Belgium constitutions empower their parliaments to issue legislative interpretation.
True, 32 states have variations of a victims' rights bill in their constitutions.
Why is CAIR opposing legislation designed to protect the rights and privileges granted under our U.S. and state constitutions?
Both countries have recently turned on their own media, and both are in the process of altering their constitutions.
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The idea is to write fiscal discipline into national constitutions and harness the EU's institutions to punish profligacy and excess.
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The debt ceiling debate has sent the liberal elite scurrying to borrow pocket constitutions from their conservative and libertarian friends.
Secondly, this country has a constitution, which is one of the most modern constitutions ever written in the Middle East.
Discerning voters know that such governmental rent-seekers must be held in check by strong fiscal restraint within their State Constitutions.
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It will have to be ratified by all member states, and some of them will first have to alter their constitutions.
He describes the process of drafting the constitution -- there was a committee that referred to the constitutions of the world.
Instead, Ms Merkel proposed that a requirement for eurozone members to balance their budgets should be enshrined in each of their constitutions.
Euro members would enshrine both debt and deficit ceilings in their constitutions.
Both the federal and state constitutions make it clear that you can "never stop someone exclusively on account of race, " he said.
The current constitutions of Egypt guarantee equality and rights to all citizens.
The 22.5-million-strong public sector (that includes retirees) is growing ever larger, and enjoying ever greater wages and benefits often guaranteed by state constitutions.
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Ours is one of the oldest written constitutions in the world and the first, anywhere, to be submitted to the people for their approval.
Americans have written a bunch of constitutions, but only one Declaration.
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Even if the governments could today agree on what to do, haggling over the details, holding referendums and amending constitutions could easily take three years.
Arizona and Florida passed amendments to their state constitutions banning it.
Ecuador has tried before: it has had seven constitutions this century.
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