Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki visited Beijing in August 2005.

In the Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2005, supporters of the constitution used the banana as their symbol, while the " no " used an orange.

He spoke out against a proposal for a new constitution in 2005 ; according to Moi, the document was contrary to the aspirations of the Kenyan people.

The National Rainbow Coalition ( National Alliance of Rainbow Coalition-NARC ) was a coalition of Kenyan political parties in power from 2002 and 2005 when it fell apart in a controversy between its wings about a constitutional referendum.

After the Kenyan constitutional referendum in 2005, all LDP members were thrown out of the government.

* Benjamin Limo ( born 1974 ), Kenyan long-distance runner and 2005 World Champion over 5000 metres

Tergat's world record was broken in 2005 by Samuel Wanjiru, another Kenyan.

Ndereba was awarded the 2004 and 2005 Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year awards.

After the Kenyan constitutional referendum in 2005 LPD left the NARC-government.

On September 29, 2005, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki declared that control of the park should pass from the Kenya Wildlife Service to the Olkejuado County Council and the Maasai tribe.

By the end of the dispute in 2005, Kenyan cricket had no sponsors and was in virtual international isolation.

At the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum, she supported its rejection.

On the track later that year he became the steeplechase world champion with a win at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, defeating his Kenyan rivals Kemboi and Kipruto.

In May 2005 the Kenyan government gave official recognition to the academy and authorized construction of its headquarters on a site that it owns near the center of Nairobi.

Limo was awarded the 2005 Kenyan Sportsman of the Year award.

Subsequently in May 2005 the ruling UDP was ousted by the PPM, which restarted the process of constitutional modernisation.

In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.

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 '.

In August 2005, Poland became the 112th country, out of 191 total members of UN, to recognize Republic of Macedonia under its constitutional name.

In a 2005 speech, Lord Woolf described it as " first of a series of instruments that now are recognised as having a special constitutional status ", the others being the Habeas Corpus Act ( 1679 ), the Petition of Right ( 1628 ), the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

In 2005, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.

In February 2005, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections ' unwritten practice of racially segregating prisoners in its prison reception centers – which California claimed was for inmate safety ( gangs in California, as throughout the U. S., usually organize on racial lines )— is to be subject to strict scrutiny, the highest level of constitutional review.

A constitutional referendum cancelled this 19-year ban on multi-party politics in July 2005.

The constitutional court agreed to the validity of this procedure on August 25, 2005, and the elections duly took place.

In 2005, Scarver brought a civil rights suit against the officials of the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in which he argued that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights.

In the Dutch constitutional system there is no decisive referendum, although sometimes consultative referenda are held, like the one in 2005 in which the people advised to reject the European Constitution ; the Dutch people is thus not a direct lawgiver.

Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

Starting with the 2008 legislative elections, drastic changes were made to the Legislative Yuan in accordance with a constitutional amendment passed in 2005.

After the proposal was defeated in a November 2005 constitutional referendum, Kibaki called Moi to arrange for a meeting to discuss the way forward.

On April 20, 2005, following a week of massive demonstrations, the Congress of Ecuador ( meeting in a special session in a private building, CIESPAL, with opposition delegates only ), on the grounds that Gutiérrez had abandoned his constitutional duties, voted 60-2 ( 38 members, including the great majority of PRE / PRIAN / PSP deputies, did not vote ) to remove Gutiérrez from office and appointed Vice President Alfredo Palacio to serve as President.

In May 2005 the Senate rejected a constitutional reform that would allow a directly elected mayor.

An executive committee was authorized by constitutional change in 2005.

In the 1980s and 1990s, its parliamentary powers were gradually transferred to the Legislative Yuan before constitutional amendments made it a dormant body in 2000 and fully defunct in 2005.

Such ratification of the constitutional amendments was originally considered to be a formality, a number of unexpected complications occurred in 2005.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.

* 2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

In 2005, a referendum was held in Brazil on the sale of firearms and ammunition to attempt to lower the number of deaths due to guns.

The occupation yielded to a transitional administrative law, which was replaced by the Constitution of Iraq following approval in a referendum held on October 15, 2005.

Between June 2000 and April 2005, each island of the Netherlands Antilles had a new referendum on its future status.

Qatari citizens approved a new constitution via public referendum in April 2003, which came into force in June 2005.

Qatari citizens approved a new constitution via public referendum in April 2003, which came into force in June 2005.

On 29 May 2005, a referendum was held in France to decide whether the country should ratify the proposed treaty for a Constitution of the European Union ( TCE ).

In 2005 a referendum was held to consult the population about their opinion on the possibility to forbid the sale and civilian possession of firearms and ammunition nationwide.

The current Constitution of Iraq was approved by referendum on 15 October 2005, two years after the United States-led invasion.

In order to hold the 2005 referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, a different law was temporarily put in place.

In the hugely divisive 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, the Greens campaigned for a Yes vote.

In a referendum in July, 2005, 92. 5 % supported restoring multiparty politics, thereby scrapping the no-party or " movement " system.

However, there was in 2005 no legislation in place for such a referendum.

* Support for the European constitution in the referendum in October 2005

On May 29, 2005, French voters in the referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe turned down the proposed charter by a wide margin.

He campaigned for a " No " vote in the French referendum on the EU Constitution in 2005 ( the proposal was defeated ).