* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

* 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.

* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

The assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a legislature and to draft a constitution.

The M-19 and several smaller guerrilla groups were successfully incorporated into a peace process as the 1980s ended and the 1990s began, which culminated in the elections for a Constituent Assembly of Colombia that would write a new constitution, which took effect in 1991.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, 26 August 1789.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.

* 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

* 1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.

The picture was meant to be massive in scale ; the figures in the foreground were meant to be life-sized portraits of the counterparts, including Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the President of the Constituent Assembly.

In 15 January 2007, the social-democrat Rafael Correa succeeded Palacio as President of Ecuador, with the promise of summoning a Constituent Assembly, and bringing focus on poverty.

The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008.

A parliamentary republic was formed by the Estonian Constituent Assembly and the first Constitution of Estonia was adopted on June 15, 1920.

After a revision, the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared that the Pakistan Constituent Assembly must be called.

Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad was unable to circumvent the order, and the new Constituent Assembly, elected by the provincial assemblies, met for the first time in July 1955.

* 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.

They were also afraid that arriving soldiers – mostly foreign mercenaries – had been summoned to shut down the National Constituent Assembly.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

The National Constituent Assembly functioned not only as a legislature, but also as a body to draft a new constitution.

With this capstone, the National Constituent Assembly adjourned in a final session on 30 September 1791.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

General Mejía allowed a managed return to democracy in Guatemala, starting with a July 1, 1984 election for a Constituent Assembly to draft a democratic constitution.

On May 30, 1985, after nine months of debate, the Constituent Assembly finished drafting a new constitution, which took effect immediately.

Thus, on 2 December 1851, shortly before the end of his single three-year term in office was to expire, Louis Bonaparte staged a coup against the Second Republic in France, disbanded the elected Constituent Assembly, arrested some of the Republican leaders and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

The Civil Constitution required all clerics to swear allegiance to it and by extension to the increasingly anti-clerical National Constituent Assembly.

Haya de la Torre was elected president of the Constituent Assembly and was slated to run as the party's presidential candidate in 1980.

The Constituent Assembly that drew up the constitution of 1891 was a battleground between those seeking to limit executive power, which was dictatorial in scope under President Deodoro da Fonseca, and the Jacobins, radical authoritarians who opposed the paulista coffee oligarchy and who wanted to preserve and intensify presidential authority.

Thus, in the 1998 presidential elections, one of Chávez's electoral promises was to organise a referendum asking the people if they wanted to convene a National Constituent Assembly.

After the murder of Luis Carlos Galán in 1989 ( and later those of Bernardo Jaramillo and Carlos Pizarro in early 1990 ) and his replacement as the Liberal presidential candidate by César Gaviria, a civic movement made up of different academic and student sectors, some of which had backed the former candidate, eventually proposed that a nonbinding " seventh ballot " ( séptima papeleta ) should be included in the March 1990 legislative elections, asking the electorate to pronounce itself in favor or against the future convocation of a National Constituent Assembly.

The newly elected president, César Gaviria, who had been chosen by 47 % of the voters ( some 2, 891, 808 votes ), signed on August 27, 1990 a presidential decree that called for the election of a National Constituent Assembly on December 9.

After three months tenure of this office he was elected by the Cher department to the Constituent Assembly, where he voted with the Mountain, and brought forward the celebrated motion for the abolition of the presidential office.

Thus, in 1938, Somoza Garcia named a Constituent Assembly that gave the president extensive power and elected him for another eight-year term.

Zogu was officially elected as the first President of Albania by the Constituent Assembly on 21 January 1925, taking office on 1 February for a seven-year term.

Countries such as Portugal ( which states that one of the primary roles of the Constituent Assembly is to open the way to socialist society ), India and Algeria have used the term " socialist " in their official name or constitution without claiming to follow Communism or any of its derivatives.

Constituent country is a term sometimes used in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger political entity, such as a sovereign state.

He served one term as President of the National Constituent Assembly ( 20 July-1 August 1790 ).

These demonstrations reached a climax when on 15 May 1848, workers from the secret societies broke out in armed uprising against the anti-labor and anti-democratic policies being pursued by the Constituent Assembly and the Provisional Government.

Civil warfare intensified after Lenin dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly ( 5 – 6 January 1918 ) and the Soviet government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ( 3 March 1918 ) removing Russia from the Great War.

It sued for peace, withdrawing from World War I, and convoked a Constituent Assembly in which the peasant Socialist-Revolutionary Party ( SR ) won a majority.

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

Upon the death of the popular French orator and statesman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau on 2 April 1791, the National Constituent Assembly, whose president had been Mirabeau, ordered that the building be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen, retaining Quatremère de Quincy to oversee the project.

In early stage the Constituent Assembly's work ( from February to March 1987 ), Cardoso led the committee that drafted the Assembly's internal rules of procedure, including the procedural rules on the drafting of the Constitution itself.

From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Württemberg Constituent National Assembly, and from 1920 to 1922 the Württemberg Landtag.

On 25 June 1947, De Nicola resigned from the post, citing health reasons, but the Constituent Assembly immediately re-elected him again the following day, having recognized in his act signs of nobility and humility.

After the Constituent Assembly ended its session, he was nominated one of the judges of the newly instituted Cour de cassation from October 1791 to September 1792.

* Proclamation of May 1, 1951 on Jammu & Kashmir Constituent Assembly by Yuvraj ( Crown Prince ) Karan Singh from the Official website of Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India

Commentators ranging from Kerensky to French ambassador Maurice Paléologue considered Michael's action as noble and patriotic, but Nicholas was appalled that Michael had " kowtowed to the Constituent Assembly " and called the manifesto " rubbish ".

The National Constituent Assembly () was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789, during the first stages of the French Revolution.

Like all other members of the Constituent Assembly, he was excluded from the Legislative Assembly by the ordinance, initially proposed by Maximilien Robespierre, that decreed that none of its members should be eligible for the next legislature.

During the French Revolution the Constituent Assembly, elected in 1789, passed a self-denying ordinance barring any member from sitting in its successor, the Legislative Assembly convened in 1791.

Karl Seitz performed the duties of head of state according to a law of 1 October 1920, which transferred these duties to the " former president of the National Constituent Assembly " for the period from 10 November 1920, to the day of swearing-in of the first Federal President ( 9 December 1920 ).

The Left SRs believed that Russia should withdraw immediately from World War I, and they were frustrated that the Provisional Government wanted to postpone addressing the land question until after the convocation of the Russian Constituent Assembly instead of immediately confiscating the land from the landowners and redistributing it to the peasants.

During the French Revolution ( from July 1789 to September 1791 ) a National Constituent Assembly () was formed when representatives assembled at the only location available – a tennis court – and swore the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789, promising that they would not adjourn until they had drafted a new constitution for France.

However, the Indian National anthem which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India, is in Hindi, as per official Indian government documents, but the words remain unaltered from the original Bengali Tatsama, a highly Sanskritized form of Bengali that has Sanskrit words in common with Hindi.

The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, voted by the National Constituent Assembly, seemed to some in the church to mark the appearance of the antichrist, in that they excluded Christian morality from the new ' natural order '.

He also served as a Representative to the National Chamber for the departments of Cundinamarca and Antioquia, and was a member of the National Constituent Assembly from 1953 to 1957.

In October 1789, Grégoire took a great interest in abolitionism, after meeting Julien Raimond, a free colored planter from Saint-Domingue who was trying to win admission to the Constituent Assembly as a representative of his group.

He was minister of the interior in the provisional government, and was also a member of the executive committee appointed by the Constituent Assembly, from which Louis Blanc and the extremists were excluded.

After the revolution, he was deputy for the Gironde to the Constituent Assembly, and in 1849 to the Legislative Assembly, where he was one of the leaders of the Right until the coup d ' état on 2 December 1851 drove him from public life.