* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

* 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.

* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

The assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a legislature and to draft a constitution.

The M-19 and several smaller guerrilla groups were successfully incorporated into a peace process as the 1980s ended and the 1990s began, which culminated in the elections for a Constituent Assembly of Colombia that would write a new constitution, which took effect in 1991.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, 26 August 1789.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.

* 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

* 1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.

The picture was meant to be massive in scale ; the figures in the foreground were meant to be life-sized portraits of the counterparts, including Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the President of the Constituent Assembly.

In 15 January 2007, the social-democrat Rafael Correa succeeded Palacio as President of Ecuador, with the promise of summoning a Constituent Assembly, and bringing focus on poverty.

The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008.

A parliamentary republic was formed by the Estonian Constituent Assembly and the first Constitution of Estonia was adopted on June 15, 1920.

After a revision, the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared that the Pakistan Constituent Assembly must be called.

Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad was unable to circumvent the order, and the new Constituent Assembly, elected by the provincial assemblies, met for the first time in July 1955.

* 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.

They were also afraid that arriving soldiers – mostly foreign mercenaries – had been summoned to shut down the National Constituent Assembly.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

The National Constituent Assembly functioned not only as a legislature, but also as a body to draft a new constitution.

With this capstone, the National Constituent Assembly adjourned in a final session on 30 September 1791.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

General Mejía allowed a managed return to democracy in Guatemala, starting with a July 1, 1984 election for a Constituent Assembly to draft a democratic constitution.

On May 30, 1985, after nine months of debate, the Constituent Assembly finished drafting a new constitution, which took effect immediately.

Thus, on 2 December 1851, shortly before the end of his single three-year term in office was to expire, Louis Bonaparte staged a coup against the Second Republic in France, disbanded the elected Constituent Assembly, arrested some of the Republican leaders and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

Originally, the Central Hall was used as the Library of the erstwhile Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of States until 1946, when it was converted and refurnished into the Constituent Assembly Hall.

Come June, the third estate, joined by members of the other two, declared itself to be a National Assembly and swore an oath not to dissolve until France had a constitution and created, in July, the National Constituent Assembly.

* 1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.

** In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.

On 9 July, the assembly declared itself a National Constituent Assembly, that would give France a Constitution.

In early stage the Constituent Assembly's work ( from February to March 1987 ), Cardoso led the committee that drafted the Assembly's internal rules of procedure, including the procedural rules on the drafting of the Constitution itself.

The Assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a governing body and a constitution-drafter.

After surviving the vicissitudes of a revolutionary two years, the National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 30 September 1791.

* July 9: National Assembly reconstitutes itself as National Constituent Assembly

On 9 July the Assembly reconstituted itself as the National Constituent Assembly.

The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 30 September 1791.

On November 28, 1917, after the October Revolution the Assembly declared itself the sovereign power on Estonia and called for the elections of the Estonian Constituent Assembly.

The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on October 1, 1791.

Failing to disperse the delegates, Louis started to recognise their validity ; subsequently, the Assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July and began to function as a governing body and a constitution-drafter.

The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 30 September 1791.

Officially, the Bolshevik government at first considered itself a provisional government and claimed that it intended to submit to the will of the Constituent Assembly.

On July 9, 1789, the Assembly, reconstituting itself as the National Constituent Assembly, addressed the king in polite but firm terms, requesting the removal of the troops ( which now included foreign regiments, who showed far greater obedience to the king than did his French troops ), but Louis declared that he alone could judge the need for troops, and assured them that the troops had deployed strictly as a precautionary measure.

The king initially opposed this development, but was forced to acknowledge the authority of the assembly, which subsequently renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July.

Komuch proclaimed itself the highest authority in Russia, temporarily acting on behalf of the Constituent Assembly on the territory occupied by the interventionists and the Whites, until the convocation of the new composition of the Assembly.

After the murder of Luis Carlos Galán in 1989 ( and later those of Bernardo Jaramillo and Carlos Pizarro in early 1990 ) and his replacement as the Liberal presidential candidate by César Gaviria, a civic movement made up of different academic and student sectors, some of which had backed the former candidate, eventually proposed that a nonbinding " seventh ballot " ( séptima papeleta ) should be included in the March 1990 legislative elections, asking the electorate to pronounce itself in favor or against the future convocation of a National Constituent Assembly.

The Supreme Court found no fault in Gaviria's decree, and unprecedentedly declared that the future Constituent Assembly would be able to freely pronounce itself on all matters, except for international treaties and the duration of the period of those officials elected during 1990.

In December 1976, the PSOE celebrated its 27th Congress in Madrid, and began to disassociate itself from the demands of the PCE, affirming that it would participate in the next call for elections for the Constituent Cortes.

In the other hand, Luis Bedoya Reyes, Lourdes Flores and Xavier Barrón contended that the PPC should present itself to guarantee democracy in the Constituent Congress.

On 10 July, Jawaharlal Nehru held a press conference in Bombay declaring that the Congress had agreed only to participate in the Constituent Assembly and regarded itself free to change or modify the Cabinet Mission Plan as it thought best.