* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

An October 1998 referendum approved constitutional changes, including increasing the number of deputies in the lower house, reducing the number of deputies in the upper house, providing for 25 % of lower house deputies to be elected by party lists, rolling back parliamentary immunity, introducing private property, prohibiting adoption of laws restricting freedom of speech and mass media, and reforming the state budget.

An October 1998 referendum approved constitutional changes, including increasing the number of deputies in the upper house, reducing the number of deputies in the lower house, rolling back Parliamentary immunity, reforming land tender rules, and reforming the state budget.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.

Despite the constitutional provisions, a 1998 government decree limited citizens ' right to express their own opinion.

Brongersma published extensively on a wide variety of topics, authoring some 1200 books and articles between 1930 and 1998 on social and philosophical subjects such as criminal law, constitutional law, criminology, philosophy, religion, sexuology, legislation on public morals and literary topics.

After the constitutional reform of November 1998, politics is mainly the task of the government.

* Australian constitutional conventions – 1891, 1897, 1973 and 1998.

Quebec abolished religious education funded by the state through the Education Act, 1998 which took effect on July 1 of that same year, again after a constitutional amendment.

In 1998, Menem's attempt to stand for re-election a second time, by means of an ad hoc interpretation of a constitutional clause, met with strong resistance among Peronist rank-and-file, who were finding themselves under increasing pressure due to the highly controversial policies of the Menem administration and its involvement in corruption scandals.

Following the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, a homegrown constitutional conference was held in Garowe in 1998 over a period of three months.

As one of the negotiators of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998, he drafted and oversaw the major constitutional amendments required by that agreement, which were approved by Referendum in May 1998.

He served as Shadow Home Secretary and spokesman for home, constitutional and legal affairs for a year under William Hague before returning to the back benches in June 1998.

In 1998, Aharon Barak, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel declared a " constitutional revolution " and attached constitutional ascendancy to the Basic Laws of Israel.

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

The constitutional obligation on the Province to maintain this system of confessional schools was eliminated by the Constitution Amendment, 1998 ( Newfoundland Act ), following a provincial referendum in 1997.

She became well known during the debate on Australia becoming a republic as a prominent advocate for retaining the constitutional monarchy, and was an elected member of the 1998 Constitutional Convention.

It formed an important part of the constitutional reform programme implemented by the 1997 Labour Government, building on the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 ( c. 48 ) passed two years earlier.

The referendum in the Republic of Ireland on the same day, rather than explicitly seeking approval of the Agreement itself, sought endorsement of constitutional amendments required by the Agreement, and produced an overwhelming Yes vote: see Ireland referendum, 1998.

* Irish constitutional referendum, 1998

* Irish constitutional referendum, 1998

In August 1998, Indonesia and the IMF agreed on an Extended Fund Facility ( EFF ) under President B. J Habibie that included significant structural reform targets.

However, the return of armed conflict in 1998 hindered economic reform and recovery.

With a high foreign debt ( originally $ 5. 7 billion at 1998 net present value ) and a good track record on economic reform, Mozambique was the first African country to receive debt relief under the initial Heavily Indebted Poor Country ( HIPC ) Initiative.

Reflecting the process Paul Volcker had described, as financial reform legislation was considered throughout 1997 and early 1998, Congressional Quarterly reported how different interests groups blocked legislation and sought regulatory advantages.

* Fu Chen, Liming Wang and John Davis, " Land reform in rural China since the mid-1980s ", Land Reform 1998 / 2, a publication of the Sustainable Development Department of the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ).

After JNRSC was dissolved in October 1998, its shares of JR West were transferred to the government-owned Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation ( JRCC ), which merged into the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency ( JRTT ) as part of a bureaucratic reform package in October 2003.

From 1998 to 2002, she served as Justice Minister in Gerhard Schröder's first cabinet, where she oversaw a number of controversial reform projects such as the reform of German citizenship legislation, the introduction of same-sex civil unions, and the overhaul of the German Civil Code, the most invasive since its inception in 1900.

This reform has remained so controversial that in a plebiscite in Schleswig Holstein in 1998, the vast majority of voters decided that the reform was not to be executed in the Federal State ; however the Schleswig-Holstein parliament overruled this decision in 1999.

Mighty River Power was established on 1 April 1999, when the 1998 reform of the electricity sector took effect.

In May 1998 a group of 550 language and literature professors, led by Theodor Ickler, Helmut Jochems, Horst Haider Munske and Peter Eisenberg, two of the Reformers, Harald Weinrich of the Collège de France, Jean-Marie Zemb of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and others, with a resolution requested the reversal of the reform by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

On July 14, 1998, after one hearing on May 12, 1998, and involving only one teachers ' organisation, the High Court declared that the introduction of the spelling reform by the Ministers of Culture was legal.

After the case was settled, Flair made a surprise return on September 14, 1998 to ceremoniously reform the Four Horsemen ( along with Steve McMichael, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit ).

Also in 1998, Senator Breaux co-chaired the National Commission on Retirement Policy, which produced legislation to help reform Social Security.

It had been a part of Katowice Voivodship ( 1975 – 1998 ) until administrative reform in 1998.

With Suharto's fall from power in May 1998, Golkar quickly sought to adapt and reform itself.

In 1998 Strathclyde, along with the entire Conservative front bench in the House of Lords, threatened to tender his resignation if the party refused to accept a proposed compromise plan for reform of the Lords that had been negotiated by Lord Cranborne, Conservative leader in the Lords, to the disapproval of party leader William Hague.

It merged with the other Medway towns ( in the City of Rochester-upon-Medway district ) in 1998 under the 1990s UK local government reform, to become part of the Medway unitary authority.

The rest of Ministerial Delegations became Directorates after a reform introduced in June 1998: Health, Education, Energy and Water, Urbanism, Agriculture, Social Assistance, strengthening thus even more the power of the Governor to whom they report.

* 1998: Nelly Shulman, born in Russia and ordained in England, became the first female rabbi from Russia and the first female rabbi in Belarus, serving as the chief reform rabbi of Minsk, Belarus.