The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 eliminated the Lord Chancellor's judicial functions and also reduced the office's salary below that of the Prime Minister.

In 2005, the Constitutional Reform Act separated the powers with Legislative functions going to an elected Lord Speaker and the Judicial functions going to the Lord Chief Justice.

It calls for Constitutional limitations on government as well as the elimination of most state functions.

Under the new Constitutional Charter, most federal functions and authorities devolved to the republic level.

Part 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which came into force on 1 October 2009, abolished the judicial functions of the House of Lords ( except on impeachment ), and transferred them to a new body, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Under the new Constitutional Charter, most federal functions and authorities devolved to the republic level.

The judicial functions of the Lord Chancellor ( as opposed to his role in the administration of the court system ) were removed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

The Bill sought to abolish the office of Lord Chancellor, and to transfer his functions to other officials: legislative functions to a Speaker of the House of Lords, executive functions to the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and judicial functions to the Lord Chief Justice.

The final Constitutional Reform Act received royal assent on 24 March 2005 and the major transfers of the historical functions of the Lord Chancellor to others ( such as the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Speaker ) were complete by mid-2006.

However the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs retained his place as a member of the Cabinet and certain special statutory functions.

Unlike the responsibilities of other Secretaries of State, which can be transferred from one department to another by an order-in-council, several functions of the Lord Chancellor are linked to the office of Lord Chancellor as a matter of statute law, even after the adoption of the Constitutional Reform Act.

In May 2007, the Department of Constitutional Affairs ceased to exist, and its functions were transferred to a newly created Ministry of Justice, which also took charge of certain responsibilities that were transferred to it from the Home Office.

In May 2007, the Department for Constitutional Affairs ( DCA ) became the new Ministry of Justice with an enhanced portfolio, that encompasses all the responsibilities of the former DCA plus some functions transferred from the Home Office.

Historically, he was the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, but that changed as a result of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which removed the judicial functions from the office of Lord Chancellor.

It was created in 2007 replacing the abolished Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, which was originally intended to fulfil those functions of the office of Lord Chancellor which related to the Lord Chancellor's Department.

The department ceased to exist as an independent body in 2003, when its functions were transferred to the newly created Department for Constitutional Affairs.

As a result, July 1971 amendments to the 1968 Constitutional Law of Federation unified the administration of these and other government functions, ended the practice of dual citizenship and, most important, authorized the federal government to interfere with and invalidate measures of the national governments.

Section 146 specifies the functions of the Constitutional Offices Commission and empowers it to appoint the Supervisor of Elections, the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Secretary-General to Parliament, and the Commissioner of Police.

The act was repealed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which transferred the judicial functions from the House of Lords to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Prior to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the office had had substantial legislative, executive, and judicial power ; the Act stripped the Lord Chancellor non-executive functions ( besides sitting in Parliament when held by an MP or a Peer entitled to a seat in the Lords ).

If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

Contrarily, the 1996 Constitutional Reform designates the President of the Senate as constitutional successor ; but the Senate ( provided for by 1996 Reform ) does not exist.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

Additionally, the Constitutional Committee has the sole power to refer a case to the High Court of Impeachment ( valtakunnanoikeus ) and to authorize police investigations for this purpose.

Two sister organizations were formed: the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and the Center for Constitutional Issues in Technology.

:::( 2 ) President of the Republic may be prosecuted for high treason at the Constitutional Court based on the Senate's suit.

Because the Constitutional Declaration allowed a multi-party system, the political parties, like Democratic Party, Party of Reform and Development, National Gathering for Freedom, Justice and Development appeared.

* Department for Constitutional Affairs ( 2006 )

The Policy and Resources Committee of the States of Jersey established the Constitutional Review Group in July 2005, chaired by Sir Philip Bailhache, with terms of reference ' to conduct a review and evaluation of the potential advantages and disadvantages for Jersey in seeking independence from the United Kingdom or other incremental change in the constitutional relationship, while retaining the Queen as Head of State '.

* Sir Phillip Bailhache and the Cry for Constitutional reform http :// www. jerseylaw. je / Publications / jerseylawreview / Oct99 / cry_for_constitutional_reform. aspx

While in Môtiers, Rousseau wrote the Constitutional Project for Corsica ( Projet de Constitution pour la Corse, 1765 ).

* Constitutional Project for Corsica, 1772

* Constitutional Project for Corsica English translation

On February 12, 1788, Madison in the Federalist Letter No. 54, stated that the Constitutional three-fifths compromise clause was the best alternative for the slaves current condition and for determining representation of citizens in Congress.

According to Chernow, Madison's position " was a breathtaking evolution for a man who had pleaded at the Constitutional Convention that the federal government should possess a veto over state laws.

On 3 August 2011, the NTC issued a Constitutional Declaration which declares the statehood of Libya as a democracy with Islam as its state religion, in which the state guarantees the rule of law and an independent judiciary as well as civic and human basic rights ( including freedom of religion and women's rights ), and which contains provisions for a phase of transition to a presidential republic with an elected national assembly and a democratically legitimized constitution by 2013.

He then served in the German delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and as advisor to the Confidential Committee for Constitutional Reform, which drafted the Weimar Constitution.

* 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.

* 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States ; George Washington presides.

* 1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments ( The United States Bill of Rights ) to the States for ratification.

However, according to the US Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual, " the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes.

According to the now defunct Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Prime Minister is made a Privy Counsellor as a result of taking office and should be addressed by the official title prefixed by " The Right Honourable " and not by a personal name.