Libya had no constitution under Gadhafi and was instead ruled by his political manifesto, the Green Book.
After the French and Dutch voted No to the constitution, its contents were minced up and squeezed into a new sausage skin, to make it unrecognisable and allow national governments to say it was a different text that did not need to be put to a vote.
But, as I've explained to you before, Nigel, the United States, unlike the United Kingdom, has a written Constitution, and even people who do not consider themselves strict constructionists agree that there is no provision in the Constitution for wishing a President away.
But Germany's constitution allows no split vote: a state must cast all its votes one way, or abstain.
America's constitution brooks no higher authority over its citizens, and an amendment to change that would probably fail.
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Thanks to the guarantees incorporated into the Constitution, no U.S. citizen or legal resident should be denied such liberties.
Some experts think that using an Act to amend its own terms is unsporting, though, as ever with the British constitution, no one really knows.
The constitution assigns no official status to the Orthodox Church.
In 2005, Chirac was president when riots engulfed French suburbs and French voters delivered him a humiliating personal defeat by voting no to the European constitution for which he had campaigned.
In the first phase of hearings in the impeachment inquiry against Bill Clinton, constitutional experts told members of the House Judiciary Committee that a halfway reprimand, such as censure, would have no basis in the constitution.
But from its creation, the Constitution has made no such promise with respect to taxes.
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Mr Erdogan has made plain that he has no intention of undermining the constitution's basic principles, including secularism.
On one side, social unrest still lingers after voters decisively said no to the European Union constitution on May 29th.
The trouble with this legalism, as has been often pointed out, is that the constitution lays down no precise standard for impeachment.
The constitution stipulates that no public employee can earn more than a supreme-court judge, whose salary is currently 26, 700 reais a month.
Jagdish, said the action had been taken because there was no provision in the BCCI constitution to enable such an inquiry to take place.
The fact that Shariah law is totally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and has no legal basis in the United States was somehow overlooked in the Army's decision process.
There is no passivity exclusion in the Constitution.
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The members of the European Council have demonstrated in Brussels that they have fallen into a period of stupor following the French and Dutch "No" votes to the Constitution - if stupor is what is understood by a decrease in the activity of higher intellectual functions...
This is the 21st Century, but in the council's constitution there's no recognition of social media.
No Justice Department is above the law, and no Justice Department is above the Constitution.
"I wouldn't like a totally Eurosceptic No, like in Britain, but I'd be happy with a "No" leading to a better constitution, " she says.
The change to the constitution means cardinals will no longer have to wait 15 days after the papacy becomes vacant before beginning the conclave.
But there is no better example of the living Constitution than the conservative re-casting of the Second Amendment in the last few decades of the twentieth century.
When the Constitution was written, no one thought to put in a provision stating that able bodied, working age adults had a responsibility to support themselves and their children.
It said Bozize has no intention to tinker with the constitution in order to remain in power, and wants to work within the framework of the document to negotiate a solution.
America will have no official say in the permanent constitution, though it will doubtless hope that many of the liberal values written into the interim document will have become indispensable by then.
Hatch and Leahy said no one wants to trample on the Constitution.
The appointment is one of two titles traditionally conferred on resigning MPs, as under the constitution, an MP has no power of voluntary resignation.
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