He met their leaders along with their French and Scot allies at Runnymede, near London on 15 June 1215 to seal the Great Charter ( Magna Carta in Latin ), which imposed legal limits on the king's personal powers.

On becoming king, Louis issued a constitution known as the Charter which preserved many of the liberties won during the French Revolution and provided for a parliament composed of an elected Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Peers that was nominated by the king.

Nationalist political parties, which subsequently arose under the French protectorate, based their arguments for Moroccan independence on such World War II declarations as the Atlantic Charter ( a joint U. S .- British statement that set forth, among other things, the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live ).

In May 1989, Arafat, in a statement later criticized by Edward Said as being beyond his authority, and properly a matter for the PNC, told a French TV interviewer " C ' est caduc ", meaning that it, the Charter, was null and void.

Lévesque's government pursues an agenda to secede Quebec from Canada by democratic means and strengthen Francophone Québécois culture in the late 1970s, such as the controversial Charter of the French Language more commonly known in Quebec and Canada as " Bill 101 ".

It was a predecessor of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the United States Bill of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.

In years to come, the French would show the Lambert Charter and the prince ’ s letter to Napoléon III to explain the Franco-Hova Wars and the annexation of Madagascar as a colony.

Angry at the cancellation of the Lambert Charter and seeking to restore property stolen from French citizens, France invaded Madagascar in 1883 in what became known as the first Franco-Hova War ( Hova as a name referring to the Merina aristocrats ).

Other states, whilst not containing constitutional provisions directly related to religion, nonetheless contain provisions forbidding discrimination on religious grounds ( see, for example, Article 1 of the French Constitution, article 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and article 40 of the Constitution of Egypt ).

The French Protestant Church of London was established by Royal Charter in 1550.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), the post-war independence of British and French possessions, and much more are derived from the Atlantic Charter.

However, the most prominent legacy of the PQ is the Charter of the French Language ( the Bill 101 ), a framework law which defines the linguistic primacy of French and seeks to make French the common public language of Quebec.

Its mandate was enlarged by the 1977 Charter of the French Language, which also established two other organizations: the Commission de toponymie ( Commission of Toponymy ) and the Conseil supérieur de la langue française ( Superior Council of the French Language ).

Sections 159 to 164 of the Québec Charter of the French Language defines the mission and powers of the commission.

* Charter of the French Language

According to the Charter of the French Language, all students must attend French language public schools except:

It is commonly known as the notwithstanding clause ( or " la clause dérogatoire " in French ), or as the override power, and it allows Parliament or provincial legislatures to override certain portions of the Charter.

:: Section 21: other constitutional language rights outside the Charter regarding English and French are sustained.

:: Section 22: existing rights to use languages besides English and French are not affected by the fact that only English and French have language rights in the Charter.

In his letter of August 10, Gaitskell wrote: Lest there should be any doubt in your mind about my personal attitude, let me say that I could not regard an armed attack on Egypt by ourselves and the French as justified by anything which Nasser has done so far or as consistent with the Charter of the United Nations.

His Parti Québécois government also passed the Quebec Charter of the French Language ( also known as " Bill 101 "), whose goal was ( and still is ) to make French " the normal and everyday language of work, instruction, communication, commerce and business.

Of the things he left as his legacy, some of the most memorable and still robust are completing the nationalization of hydroelectricity through Hydro-Québec, the Quebec Charter of the French Language, the political party financing law, and the Parti Québécois itself.

The new English designations are now smaller than their official French equivalent, in compliance with the 1993 amendment to the Charter of the French Language.

However, this legislation was soon superseded by the Charter of the French Language also known as Bill 101, introduced by the Parti Québécois government that replaced him in 1976.

In 1977, during their first term in office, the Parti Québécois enacted the Charter of the French Language, known in English as Bill 101, whose goal is to protect the French language by making it the language of business in Quebec, as well as restricting the use of English on signs.

712 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision in which the Court struck down part of the Charter of the French Language, commonly known as Bill 101.

They had been fined for violation of the Charter of the French Language and decided to fight the case in court.

In late 1989, shortly after the Supreme Court's decision, premier Robert Bourassa's Liberal Party of Quebec government passed Bill 178, making minor amendments to the Charter of the French Language.

This move was politically controversial, both among Quebec nationalists who were unhappy with the changes to the Charter of the French Language, and among English-speaking Quebecers who opposed the use of the notwithstanding clause.

In 1993, the Charter of the French Language was amended in the manner suggested by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Married to Polish immigrant Alice Poznanska ( 1930 – 1990 ), Jacques Parizeau was criticized for supporting the Charter of the French Language.

On August 26, 1977, the PQ passed two main laws: first, the law on the financing of political parties, which prohibits contributions by corporations and unions and set a limit on individual donations, and second, the Charter of the French Language.

The Charter of the French Language ( La charte de la langue française, in French ), also known as Bill 101 and ( in French ) Loi 101, is a law in the province of Quebec in Canada defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of Quebec, and framing fundamental language rights.

The first version of the Charter of the French Language provided that Bills be enacted only in French.

In 1979, the related provisions ( articles 7 through 13 ) were rendered inoperative by a ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada in Attorney General of Quebec v. Blaikie ; however, Quebec responded by re-enacting in French and in English the Charter of the French Language, leaving intact articles 7 through 13.

Before 1982, the only part of the Charter of the French Language that could be challenged constitutionally was that of the language of legislation and the courts.

This novelty opened another door to a constitutional dispute of Quebec's Charter of the French Language.

The Charter of the French Language has been received poorly by many anglophones.

On net balance, in spite of Controller Gerosa's opposition to the new Charter as an invasion of his office, the Controller will have the opportunity for greater usefulness to good government than he has now.

Enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has also fundamentally changed much of Canadian constitutional law.

On the other hand, the Republic of Ireland has not been able to sign the Charter on behalf of the Irish language ( although a minority language ) as it is defined as the first official language of the state.

The United Kingdom has ratified the Charter in respect of ( among other languages ) Welsh in Wales and Irish in Northern Ireland.

France, although a signatory, has been constitutionally blocked from ratifying the Charter in respect of the languages of France.

The General Assembly cannot make binding resolutions, only ' recommendations ', but through its adoption of the " Uniting for Peace " resolution ( A / RES / 377 A ), of 3 November 1950, the Assembly declared that it has the power to authorize the use of force, under the terms of the UN Charter, in cases of breaches of the peace or acts of aggression, provided that the Security Council, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, fails to act to address the situation.

It has also annexed adjacent tracts of land in Delta Charter Township and Windsor Township in Eaton County to the west and Delhi Charter Township in Ingham County to the south.

Constitutionally, foreign policy is to be guided by “ the principles of the United Nations Charter, nonalignment, Panchsheel principles of peaceful coexistence, international law and the value of world peace .” In practice, foreign policy has not been directed toward projecting influence internationally but toward preserving autonomy and addressing domestic economic and security issues.

The Charter provides that, in case of doubt, it is for the Court itself to decide whether it has jurisdiction, and that each member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the Court.

The full membership of the Charter Members has never been publicly revealed, and the Charter Members group communicated by way of a closed-subscription mailing list, " osi-discuss ", with non-public archives.

Israel has always strongly objected to the Charter, which describes the establishment of the state of Israel as " entirely illegal " ( Art.

A June 1999 report by the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Information on the status of the Charter made no mention of the 1998 events and leading Palestinians continue to state that the Charter has not yet been amended.

Per the Transitional Federal Government's ( TFG ) Charter, Prime Minister Mohamed named a new Cabinet on November 12, 2010, which has been lauded by the international community.

Likewise, the concept of tradition has been used to defend the preservation and reintroduction of minority languages such as Cornish under the auspices of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

In recent years there has been tension between this principle and the concept of humanitarian intervention under Article 73. b of the United Nations Charter " to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement.

The formal elimination of the Trusteeship Council would require the revision of the UN Charter, which is why it has not been pursued.

The University has also established the UPEACE Human Rights Centre which was created within the contours of the broader mission of the University to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace and with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.

* May 23 – The Second Charter of Virginia is officially ratified, which is intended to replace the council with a Governor who has absolute control in the colony.

The power of the new monarch is ill-assured and to mollify the barons he has to grant them the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of written constitution in Europe.

The Mayor of the City of London has been elected by the City, rather than appointed by the Sovereign, since a Royal Charter providing for a Mayor was issued by King John in 1215.

After the World War II, United Nations has been established by United Nations Charter to " save successing generations from the two scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind ".