The Constitutions of the Free-Masons, For the Use of the Lodges in London and Westminster was published in 1723.

As to religious requirements, the oldest constitution found in Freemasonry – Anderson's Constitutions of the Free-Masons, 1723 – says that a Mason " will never be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious Libertine " if he " rightly understands the Art ".

Constitutions are written documents that specify and limit the powers of the different branches of government.

The Scientific Development doctrine has been written into the Communist Party and State Constitutions in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

Modeled on Spratt's Irish Constitutions, the regulations are comprehensive and well written, and are followed by an extended section devoted to songs.

William Preston was already in dispute with the Grand Secretary over the royalties to the new Book of Constitutions he had just written.

It is often said that the Constitutions of the United States and the Episcopal Church were written by the same people.

The Pope put in place a vast program to launch the Crusade, which was written down in his “ Constitutions for the zeal of the faith ”.

Later on, more developed Constitutions were written and approved by the first General Chapter ( called " General Congregation ") of the Society of Jesus, called in 1558 to elect the successor of Ignatius of Loyola.

Constitutions, written documents, established offices and regular elections are often associated with modern legal-rational political systems.

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states ; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students.

They trace how the name and the abbreviation entered Masonic tradition from the Book of Constitutions written in 1723 by the Reverend James Anderson.

Constitutions of and by themselves mean little ; ;

A version of the Apostolic Constitutions used by the sect of the Audiani advised:

The " Constitutions of Oxford " of 1408 aimed to reclaim authority in all ecclesiastical matters, specifically naming John Wycliffe in a ban on certain writings, and noting that translation of Scripture into English by unlicensed laity is a crime punishable by charges of heresy.

Paraguay's highly centralized government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which reinforced a division of powers that in the previous two Constitutions existed mostly on paper.

The Apostolic Constitutions says that Linus was the first bishop of Rome and was ordained by Paul, and that he was succeeded by Clement, who was ordained by Peter.

The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions.

The seed of the myth of Stuart Jacobite influence on the higher degrees may have been a careless and unsubstantiated remark made by John Noorthouk in the 1784 Book of Constitutions of the Premier Grand Lodge of London.

Shortly before 1433 three priories in Valais, Tuscany, and Mantua were reformed by the preaching of Thomas Conecte of Rennes and formed the Congregation of Mantua, which was declared independent of the rest of the Order with its own special set of Constitutions as ratified by Pope Eugene IV and governed by its own vice prior general.

It was only at the end of the 19th century that those following the reform of Tourraine ( by this time known as the " strict observance ") and the Mantuan Congregation were formally merged under one set of Constitutions.

Rather than the main conflict between Becket and the King revolving around the Constitutions of Clarendon, as is depicted in the play, and as happened in real life, the film's dispute between Becket and Henry II centers on the assassination of an accused priest by the henchmen of Lord Gilbert, a nobleman and friend of King Henry, and Becket's excommunication of Gilbert as a result.

F. Núñez de la Vega, bishop of Chiapa, says, in the preface to his Synodal Constitutions, that in the visit which he made to his diocese towards the end of the last century the late 1600s, he found many ancient calendars of the Chiapanese, and an old manuscript in the language of that country, made by the Indians themselves, in which it was said, according to their ancient tradition, that a certain person named Votan was present at that great building, which was made by order of his uncle, in order to mount up to heaven ; that then every people was given its language, and that Votan himself was charged by God to make the division of the lands of Anahuac.

Lord Burlington's status as an important Freemason is indicated by his inclusion in the Freemason's Pocket Companion of 1736 and in a poem in James Anderson's Constitutions of the Free Masons of 1723 where he is linked to an illustrious line of personalities.

The Augustinian Hermits, while following the rule known as that of St. Augustine, are also subject to the Constitutions, first drawn up by Augustinus Novellus ( d. 1309 ), Prior General of the Order from 1298 to 1300, and by Clement of Osimo.

In 1166, however, Henry II promulgated the Constitutions of Clarendon which established a new system of courts that rendered decisions wholly by royal authority.

Vespers, then, was the most solemn Office of the day and was composed of the psalms called Lucernales ( Psalm 140 is called psalmus lucernalis by the Apostolic Constitutions, VIII, xxxv ; cf.

* An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States ( 1814 )-a detailed and elaborate critique of the political-philosophical system developed and defended by John Adams in his Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America ( 1787 ).

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated was Taylor's response to a series of post-War of 1812 developments including John Marshall's Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the widespread issuance of paper money by banks, proposals for a protective tariff, and the attempt to bar slavery from Missouri.

* Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus of Pettau, Dionysius of Corinth, Apostolic Constitutions, Homily, Liturgies, Liturgy of St James,

Shortly after the formation of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, James Anderson was commissioned to digest these " Gothic Constitutions " in a palatable, modern form.

Shaftesbury, with the assistance of his secretary, the philosopher John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, a plan for government of the colony heavily influenced by the ideas of the English political scientist, James Harrington.

He took as his basis the Liturgy of St. James as it was celerated at his time in the region of Cappadocia, as well as some liturgical elements recorded in the Apostolic Constitutions.

( 1999 ) as James Madison in " The Super Amazing Constitutions "

In 1723, by authority of the Grand Lodge, James Anderson published the Constitutions of Masonry for the purposes of regulating the craft and establishing the Grand Lodge's authority to warrantLodges to meet.

In his 1723 " Constitutions ", James Anderson announced that many problems with this text would be solved by reading "' abi " as the second part of a proper name, which he rendered as " Hiram Abif ", agreeing with the translations of Martin Luther and Miles Coverdale's reading of 2 Chronicles 4: 16 ..

In the 17th century James Ussher agreed, and identified the Linus mentioned as the early Bishop of Rome of that name ( Pope Linus's mother's name is given as Claudia in the Apostolic Constitutions ).

Anderson made the claims in his widely circulated Constitutions while many of Wren's friends were still alive, but he made many highly creative claims as to the history or legends of Freemasonry.

The Cooke Manuscript, dating from about 1450, set the pattern for what Anderson called the " Gothic Constitutions ", the older histories and regulations of the craft.

The " Antient Charges " published in the current Book of Constitutions of the United Grand Lodge of England have altered little from those originally published by Anderson.

The Constitutions were revised again and published at Rome in 1895, with additions in 1901 and 1907.

Books published in the PRC since the 1980s regarded the 1975 and 1978 promulgations of the Constitutions as ones with " serious errors ".