According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it " contain institutionalized mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and liberties of the citizenry, including those that may be in the minority.

According to Sun Yat-sen's plans, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) was to rebuild China in three steps: military rule, political tutelage, and constitutional rule.

According to Harper, the motion was of a symbolic political nature, representing no constitutional change, no recognition of Quebec sovereignty, and no legal change in its political relations within the federation.

According to Time magazine, on 21 November 2003, Franks said that in the event of another terrorist attack, American constitutional liberties might be discarded by popular demand in favor of a military state.

According to former United States Assistant Attorney General Walter E. Dellinger III the Supreme Court and the Attorneys General have long interpreted the Take Care Clause as standing for the proposition that the President has no inherent constitutional authority to suspend the enforcement of the laws, particularly of statutes.

According to Akhil Reed Amar, the framers and early supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it would ensure that the states would be required to recognize the individual rights the federal government was already required to respect in the Bill of Rights and in other constitutional provisions ; all of these rights were likely understood as falling within the " privileges or immunities " safeguarded by the amendment.

According to the Constitution of Singapore, a referendum can be held in a few circumstances, including situations when a constitutional amendment passed by the Parliament is rejected by the President, or when the nation's sovereignty needs to be decided ( i. e. merger or incorporation into other countries ).

According to the Belgian constitution, the monarch accedes to the throne only upon taking a constitutional oath.

According to the constitution of 1848, he had to step down at the end of his term, so he sought a constitutional amendment to allow him to succeed himself, arguing that four years were not enough to fully implement his political and economic program.

According to Joseph H. H. Weiler, " Europe has charted its own brand of constitutional federalism ".

According to the critics, the appointment of this and successive governments consisting of aisle-crossers instead of the proclamation of new elections, caused a constitutional crisis and political instability that lasted for more than two years and led to the dictatorship of 1967 – 1974.

According to the Royal Household, " he purpose of these resources is to ensure that the Head of State may carry out his tasks with the independence which is inherent to his constitutional functions, as well as with due effectiveness and dignity ".

According to GAO's current mission statement, the agency exists to support the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.

According to constitutional obligation he shall without delay signify that he assents and hence promulgate the said Bill into a Parliamentary Act.

According to Châteaubriand, in reference to Louis XVIII ’ s constitutional charter, the new constitution – La Benjamine, it was dubbed – was merely a " slightly improved " version of the charter associated with Louis XVIII's administration ; however, later historians, including Agatha Ramm, have pointed out that this constitution permitted the extension of the franchise and explicitly guaranteed press freedom.

According to the Mackinac Center Web site the Project “ produces legal analysis of state and national policy issues in order to better inform policymakers, the media and the public ,” and in strategic cases at both the state and federal levels the initiative writes and submits amicus curiae briefs that “ explore the broader constitutional, statutory and public policy considerations at stake .” These briefs are published on the Center ’ s Web site.

According to legend, the Roman King Servius Tullius enacted a series of constitutional reforms in the 6th century BC.

According to Black's Law Dictionary, some Southern states adopted constitutional provisions exempting from the literacy requirements descendants of those who fought in the army or navy of the United States or of the Confederate States during a time of war.

According to constitutional changes which came into effect on 26 June 1990 the red star in the flag of SR Croatia was to be replaced by the " historical Croatian coat of arms with 25 red and white fields ", without specifying order of fields.

According to British constitutional theory, he met Fitzalan to ' kiss hands ' ( the formal name for the installation of a minister of the Crown ), the fact of their meeting rather than the signing of any documents, duly installing him in office.

According to British constitutional theory, on which much of the Fijian Constitution is based, the British Parliament consists not only of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, but also the reigning Monarch, who is replaced by the President in the Fijian context.

According to the treaty, the confederation was to be run by common constitutional bodies, but the individual states ( in particular the larger ones ) wanted unlimited sovereignty.

According to constitutional scholar Shad Saleem Faruqi, the Constitution has been amended 42 times over the 48 years since independence as of 2005.

According to the temporary Constitution of Lithuania, Landsbergis had constitutional authority over both the Leader of the State and the Speaker of the Parliament.

According to Dutch legal experts Crombag, Wagenaar, van Koppen, the Dutch system contravenes the provisions of the European Human Rights convention, in the imbalance between the power of the prosecution service and the defence.

According to the definition established in a 1932 convention signed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden ( registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series 199-1933 ), the northern boundary between Kattegat and Skagerrak is found at the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the southern boundary towards Oresund is found at the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), states are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, if they ratify at least two of the five protocols.

According to the United Nations convention, there is no distinction between the terms racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination, and superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and that there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere.

According to the North Star, published by Frederick Douglass, whose attendance at the convention and support of the Declaration helped pass the resolutions put forward, the document was the " grand basis for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women.

According to convention, the ruler of Abu Dhabi is President of the United Arab Emirates, the head of state, and the ruler of Dubai is the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, the head of government.

According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.

According to Gikow, Sesame Street went against the convention of hiring teachers to write for the show, as most educational television programs did at the time.

According to convention, these inmates are used as sexual slaves or traded as personal property.

According to chief judge Richard May from the United Kingdom, the ICTY issued an indictment against Arkan on 30 September 1997 for war crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva convention of 1949 for customs and traditions of war.

According to critics, the two-week timeline and quasi-democratic composition of the convention is evidence of an attempt by John Howard to frustrate the republican cause.

According to The handbook of English linguistics, generic masculine pronouns and gender-specific job titles are instances " where English linguistic convention has historically treated men as prototypical of the human species.

According to fandom historian Fred Patten, the concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a character drawing from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics started a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels.

According to these conventions, the Prime Minister is leader of Cabinet ( itself a body existing by convention ), and takes a co-ordinating role.

According to the New Republic's Franklin Foer, " He masterminded Michael Dukakis's gubernatorial campaign in 1974 ; worked as executive director of the Democratic National Committee in the Jimmy Carter era ; managed the 1980 Democratic convention in New York ; and subsequently worked as chief scheduler for Carter's reelection campaign.

According to this convention, when an index variable appears twice in a single term it implies summation of that term over all the values of the index.

According to the Franco-Polish military convention, the French Army was to start preparations for the major offensive three days after mobilization started.

According to the " Plan For Organization ," to organize as a group, a convention of the region must be called by the Vice-President of the state and the Advisory Counsel of each state where the officers would be chosen in coordination with the National's rules.

According to MDA the new convention better reflected the program's position within the Block 2004 / 2006 schema of development.

According to Janssen, deciding between Laue's standard model and such alternatives is merely a matter of convention.

According to historian Youssef Choueiri, the " first public glimmerings " of a pan-Arab approach occurred in 1931, during the convention of a pan-Islamic conference in Jerusalem which highlighted Muslim fears of the increasing growth of Zionism in Palestine.

According to the Brazilian Association of Convention and Fair Centers ( ABRACCEF ), on average, there are 17, 500 events happening in the 53 main convention and exhibition centres of Brazil.

According to the glossary of ring theory, convention assumes the existence of a multiplicative identity for any ring.

According to the United Nations convention, superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere.