Suppressing the Socialist movement in February 1934, he cemented the rule of “ austrofascism ” through the authoritarian First of May Constitution.

* May 1 – The May Constitution of 1934 heralds the beginning of the Austrofascist Federal State of Austria

Louis Wodon ( the chef de cabinet of Leopold III from 1934 to 1940 ), thought the King's oath to the Constitution implied a royal position over and above the Constitution.

The Communications Act of 1934 followed the precedents of trial cases set under the Commerce Clause of the U. S. Constitution ( Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 ), regulating commerce " among the several states ".

The Shoshone and Paiute united at Duck Valley under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and formed a tribal government through a Constitution and Bylaws which was adopted in 1936.

; 80px Safeguarding the Constitution Medal – 1934 – for helping put down the Boworadej Rebellion

With the Weimar Constitution, it was replaced in 1919 by the Reichsrat ( 1919 – 1934 ).

The second Constitution of Brazil ( 1934 ) conceded to Acre the right to elect representatives to the National Congress of Brazil.

The primary concerns of the new Government were: to resolve the conflict with Colombia ( peace was negotiated in May 1934 ); and to assuage internal political agitation ( Tauro, vol 1, p. 266 ; Orrego, p. 894 ) for which purpose, Benavides outlawed the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ), arguing that it was an international party, prohibited by the Peruvian Constitution, and repressed the Communist Party for the same reason.

The Vargas Era comprises three successive phases: the period of the Provisional Government ( 1930 – 1934 ), when Vargas governed by decree as Head of the Provisional Government ; the period of the Constitution of 1934 ( when, in the wake of the adoption of a new Constitution by the Constituent Assembly of 1933 – 34, Vargas – elected by the Constituent Assembly under the transitional provisions of the Constitution – governed as President, alongside a democratically elected Legislature ); and the Estado Novo period ( 1937 – 1945 ), that begins when, in order to perpetuate his rule, Vargas imposes a new, authoritarian Constitution in a coup d ' etát, and shuts down Congress, assuming dictatorial powers.

This took place on November 10, 1937, when President Getúlio Vargas, in a coup d ' état, replaced the 1934 Constitution with a new Constitution imposed by him, decreed a state of emergency-that would last until his deposition in 1945-and dissolved the National Congress.

* James Montgomery Beck, Class of 1880 and Trustee, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1896 – 1900 ; Assistant Attorney General of the United States, 1900 – 1903 ; Solicitor General of the United States, 1921 – 1925 ; Member of United States House of Representatives, 1927 – 1934 ; and noted constitutional law scholar ; his most famous book, The Constitution of the United States ( 1924 ), sold over 50, 000 copies, including translations in German and French ; President of the Philadelphia Shakespeare Society from 1913 until his death in April 1936 ; elected a bencher of Gray ’ s Inn in 1914, being the first foreigner in 600 years to receive that distinction ; received decorations from France and Belgium

* May Constitution of 1934, an Austrian Constitution adopted on May 1, 1934

* 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.

* 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1973 – The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.

* 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

He was buried just outside Greeneville – with his body wrapped in an American flag and a copy of the U. S. Constitution placed under his head, according to his wishes.

* 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.

* 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

* 1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

* 1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist, maker of Indian Constitution ( d. 1956 )

* 1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the " right to free contract " is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

* 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

* 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

* 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.

* Constitution of 1824 – the first Brazilian constitution, enacted by Dom Pedro I.

* Constitution of 1891 – the republic was proclaimed in 1889, but a new constitution was not promulgated until 1891.

* Constitution of 1937 – Getúlio Vargas suppressed a Communist uprising in 1935 and two years later ( November 10, 1937 ) used it as a pretext to establish autocratic rule.

* Constitution of 1946 – in October, 1945, with the II World War over, a civil-military coup ousted dictatorial Getúlio Vargas, an Assembly wrote a democratic constitution.

* Constitution of 1967 – after the 1964 coup d ' État against João Goulart, the military dictatorship passed the Institutional Acts, a supraconstitutional law.

* Constitution of 1988 – the progressive redemocratization culminated in the current constitution.

After being for three years ( 2003 – 06 ) in the interregnum between two constitutions, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now under the regime of the Constitution of the Third Republic.

* 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

A new constitution was adopted in 2007 ( the Virgin Islands Constitution Order, 2007 ) and came into force when the Legislative Council was dissolved for the 2007 general election.

The Fetha Negest remained the supreme law in Ethiopia until 1931, when a modern-style Constitution was first granted by Emperor Haile Selassie I.

The last attempt was in 2000, when the project was rejected by the Constitutional Court, because it allocated funds from the national budget, which, under the Chilean Constitution, is a privilege of the President.

Nevertheless, the liberal regime and the Constitution proved to be ephemeral: they were suppressed by Ferdinand VII when he returned to the throne in 1814.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

The Constitution of the Cook Islands took effect on August 4, 1965, when the Cook Islands became a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

The US Constitution gives much of the foreign policy decision-making to the presidency, but the Senate has a role in ratifying treaties, and the Supreme Court interprets treaties when cases are presented to it.

The Bill of Rights in the Constitution of South Africa forbids a retrial when there has already been an acquittal or a conviction.

The Emperor of Japan is " the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people " according to the 1947 Constitution of Japan, which dissolved the Empire of Japan when it was adopted by the Postwar Japanese government.

The final 17 reflect the bitter disappointment of liberals when the restored Bourbon monarchy, encouraged by the Catholic hierarchy, rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and opposed both state and religious reform.

Section 4 of the Constitution allows the Queen to appoint an Administrator to carry out the role of Governor-General when there is a vacancy.

Modern sociology largely originated from this movement and Hume's philosophical concepts that directly influenced James Madison ( and thus the U. S. Constitution ) and when popularised by Dugald Stewart, would be the basis of classical liberalism.

According to Aristotle's Constitution of Orchomenus, when the Thespians ravaged Ascra, the villagers sought refuge at Orchomenus, where, following the advice of an oracle, they collected the ashes of Hesiod and set them in a place of honour in their agora, next to the tomb of Minyas, their eponymous founder.

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States states in part: " No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia when in actual service in time of War or public danger ".

The Irish Government acknowledged this interpretation — although it did not acknowledge any legal obligations to persons in this larger diaspora — when Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland was amended in 1998 to read " urthermore, the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.

The Resolution stated that when the national government acts beyond the scope of the Constitution, the states " have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them ".

The court ruled that Bryant was not entitled to immunity as the head of state under the Constitution as he was not elected to the position and he was not acting in accordance with law when he allegedly stole USD $ 1. 3 million in property from the government.

* May 3 is when the Polish Constitution Day is celebrated in Poland.

This conflict raised the important question of what happens when an Act of Congress conflicts with the Constitution.

By principle, originalists are generally unwilling to defer to precedent when precedent seems to come into conflict with the Constitution.

Alexander VII's Apostolic Constitution Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum laid out the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in terms almost identical to those utilized by Pope Pius IX when he issued his infallible definition Ineffabilis Deus and the former work is cited in footnote 11 of the latter.