All ships at port are subject to inspection in accordance with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty.

* Article 7 – Treaty-state observers have free access, including aerial observation, to any area and may inspect all stations, installations, and equipment ; advance notice of all activities and of the introduction of military personnel must be given ;

The 72 signatories and 166 parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognise this rule, under Article 14 ( 7 ): No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which he has already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country.

Article 7 prohibits the retrospective criminalisation of acts and omissions.

Article 7 incorporates the legal principle nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege into the convention.

Article 7 regulates the involuntary loss of nationality.

In The NCAA rulebook defines eligible receivers for college football in Rule 7, Section 3, Article 3.

:: Example 7 ( semi-presidential republic ): Chapter VI, Article 77 of the Constitution of Lithuania states:

:: Example 2 ( presidential republic ): Article 1, Section 7 of the United States Constitution states:

* Article 7 of the Printing and Publications Act No. 8 of 1998 sets out the ethical rules that apply to journalism and the conduct of journalists.

( Constitution Article 6 and 7 )

The Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the U. S. Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900 and recognized by the Puerto Rico constitution.

* Article 25 ( 5 ) states that the Article 7 ban on mining may not be repealed unless a future treaty establishes a binding regulatory framework for such activity.

* Under Article I, Section 3, Clause 7, upon conviction in impeachment cases, the Senate has the option of disqualifying convicted individuals from holding other federal offices, including the presidency.

Article 7 of the earlier document was changed from " Jews of Palestinian origin are considered Palestinians ..." to being restricted only to those " who had resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion.

The issue was included in the provisional agenda of the meeting of the commission to be held in New York from 7 March to 21 April 2011 and recommendations pursuant to Article 76 of the Convention were made.

On 7 February 2006, five journalists were tried for insulting the judicial institutions of the State, and for aiming to prejudice a court case ( per Article 288 of the Turkish penal code ).

Also, Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 allows the Senate, upon voting to remove an impeached federal official from office, to disqualify that official from holding any federal office.

In the absence of a statutory right to same-sex marriage, the plaintiffs argued that the Vermont Constitution's Common Benefits Clause ( Chapter I, Article 7 ), which guarantees all citizens equal benefit and protection of the law, guarantees same-sex couples ' right to the substantial benefits and protections of marriage.

* Mystery of Star Wars phantom edit, BBC News Article, Thursday, June 7, 2001

He considered Article 7 of the constitution, which asserts freedom of speech, of more importance than Article 1, which forbids discrimination on the basis of religion, life principles, political inclination, race, or sexual preference.

Under Article 7 of the statute, torture may be considered a crime against humanity " when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack ".

How explicit such factors have been historically is evident in any chronology of restrictive covenant cases or in a review of NAREB's Code of Ethics Article 34 in the Code, adopted in 1924, states that `` a Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality or any individuals whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood ''.

St Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, II: II Quaestio 25, Article 4 states that we should love our neighbour more than our ourselves.

* Article 8 – Allows for jurisdiction over observers and scientists by their own states ;

* Article 10 – All treaty states will discourage activities by any country in Antarctica that are contrary to the treaty ;

The Tokyo Convention states in Article 11, defining the so-called unlawful takeover of an aircraft, that the parties signing the agreement are obliged, in case of hijacking or a threat of it, to take all the necessary measures in order to regain or keep control over an aircraft.

Article 25 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, speaking of the sacraments, says: " Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures ; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

Indeed, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Article 6 requires these features in the legal systems of its signatory states.

This is provided for in Article II of the Constitution, which states that the President " shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

In the European Union member states, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment.

For example, the Case or Controversy Clause of Article Three of the United States Constitution ( Section 2, Clause 1 ) states that " the judicial Power shall extend ... to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party ".

The Constitution of Japan states in Article 39 that

Signatory states to the Convention can only derogate from the rights contained in Article 2 for deaths which result from lawful acts of war.

The Court has ruled that states have three main duties under Article 2:

Article 15 allows contracting states to derogate from certain rights guaranteed by the Convention in time of " war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation ".

The Court is quite permissive in accepting a state's derogations from the Convention but applies a higher degree of scrutiny in deciding whether measures taken by states under a derogation are, in the words of Article 15, " strictly required by the exigencies of the situation ".

Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that, " No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 4 also states that these duties can be delegated by the Emperor as provided for by law.

Under clause 17 Article I Section 8 of the Constitution however, Congress has power to " exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases whatsoever " over the federal district ( Washington, D. C .) and other territory ceded to the federal government by the states, such as for military installations.

In accordance with Article 151 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong concluded over 20 agreements with foreign states in 2010 on matters such as economic and financial co-operation, maritime technical co-operation, postal co-operation and co-operationon wine-related businesses.

:: Example 2 ( parliamentary non-executive monarchy ): Article 1 of the Constitution of Japan states:

:: Example 3 ( parliamentary republic ): Title II, Article 87 of the Constitution of Italy states:

:: Example 4 ( parliamentary republic ): Article 67 of the Iraqi constitution of 2005 states:

:: Example 5 ( parliamentary republic ): Title II, Chapter I, Article 120 of the Constitution of Portugal states:

:: Example 6 ( semi-presidential republic ): Chapter IV, Section 1, Article 66 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea states: