The ACT has internal self-government, but Australia's Constitution does not afford the territory government the full legislative independence provided to Australian states.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

The Constitution does not set a term of office, so a Governor-General may continue to hold office for any agreed length of time, however a typical term of office is five years.

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

The Italian Constitution does not recognize the right to keep and bear arms, however different types of gun licenses can be obtained from the national police authorities.

In that same ruling, the Court noted " We have never held that the Constitution mandates an insanity defense, nor have we held that the Constitution does not so require.

Lynch does not support an amendment to the State Constitution banning an income tax.

* Does Article III of the Constitution create a " floor " for original jurisdiction, which Congress can add to, or does it create an exhaustive list that Congress can't modify at all?

The 1954 PRC Constitution provides that the State Chairman ( President ) directs the armed forces and made the State Chairman the chair of the Defense Commission ( the Defense Commission is an advisory body, it does not lead the armed forces ).

However, it does not have the sovereignty that a state of the Union has, given that Puerto Rico is a possession of the United States and it is, thus, not protected by the US Constitution as states are.

The United States Constitution mentions the resignation of the president but does not regulate the form of such a resignation or the conditions for its validity.

In a 1982 judgment delivered under such a referral, Chief Justice Tom O ' Higgins bemoaned the crude strictures of the prescribed process ; especially the fact that, if the court finds that a bill does not violate the Constitution, this judgment can never subsequently be challenged.

The Constitution of Western Australia does not explicitly provide for a premier, and the office was not formally listed as one of the executive offices until the appointment of Ross McLarty in 1947.

The term republic does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, but does appear in Article IV of the Constitution which " guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government.

As the political scientist Jorri Duursma notes, " San Marino does not have an official Constitution as such.

Defamation does not affect or hinder the voicing of opinions, but does occupy the same fields as rights to free speech in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

The Constitution does not directly guarantee the franchise to anyone ; rather, it provides that those qualified to vote in elections for the largest chamber of a state's legislature may vote in congressional elections as well.

The Constitution does not fix the size of the House of Representatives ; instead, this clause empowers Congress to determine the size of the House as part of the apportionment process, so long as the size of the House does not exceed 1 member for every 30, 000 of the country's total population and the size of the state's delegation does not exceed 1 for every 30, 000 of the state's population ( although these limits have not been approached since the Founding ).

Though the Constitution does not mandate it, every Speaker has been a member of the House of Representatives.

As is true of the Speaker of the House, the Constitution does not require that the President pro tempore be a senator, but by convention, a senator is always chosen ; since World War II, the senior member of the majority party has filled this position.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.

However, this overlooks those parts of scripture which provide for the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and for the medieval Roman Catholic concept of the powers of kings to protect the Christian Constitution of states, to defend and extend the boundaries of Christendom by lawful means only, to protect and defend the innocent, the weak, the poor and the vulnerable, and to protect the church and the papacy with the king's own life, if necessary.

Sections 61 and 68 of the Constitution provide that the Governor-General exercises certain powers as the Queen's representative.

He contended that, since the Constitution did not provide for cases in which legislators failed to approve a budget, he could merely apply the previous year's budget.

In December 1982, the fifth National People ’ s Congress revised the State Constitution to provide that the State Central Military Commission leads all the armed forces of the state.

For example, the movement to amend the Constitution to provide for the direct election of U. S. Senators began to see such proposals regularly pass the House of Representatives only to die in the Senate from the early 1890s onward.

The Constitution does not expressly provide for a deadline on the state legislatures ' or state ratifying conventions ' consideration of proposed amendments.

State constitutions provide free speech protections similar to those of the U. S. Constitution.

Under the original provisions of the Constitution, senators were elected by state legislatures ; this was intended to ensure that the Federal government contained representatives of the states, and also to provide a body not dependent on popular support that could afford to " take a more detached view of issues coming before Congress.

Since independence, the Constitution has been amended by the government to provide for:

Nonetheless the Constitution does provide the linguistic framework for conducting government affairs and describing them in the media.

This election would provide the impetus for the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Although Vermont is bound by the Federal Constitution, it is free to provide additional rights to its citizens than might be constitutionally granted to citizens of other states.

While the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the production, sale, and transport of " intoxicating liquors ", it did not define " intoxicating liquors " or provide penalties.

* Appendices provide the Constitution of the United States, the UCMJ itself, analysis of the Parts, historical Executive Orders, forms, etc.

The new procedure was intended to provide more stability than under the Weimar Constitution, when extremists on the left and right would vote to remove a chancellor, without agreeing on a new one, creating a leadership vacuum.

In 1963, Senator Kenneth Keating of New York proposed a Constitutional amendment which would have enabled the Congress to enact legislation providing for how to determine when a President is disabled, rather than, as the Twenty-fifth Amendment does, having the Constitution so provide.

The Constitution did not provide for Vice Presidential vacancies until the Twenty-fifth Amendment was adopted.

The Constitution and the amended Presidential Election Act of 1987 provide for election of the president by direct, secret ballot, ending sixteen years of indirect presidential elections under the preceding two governments.

The United States Constitution invests Congress with the powers to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States and to raise and support armies.

Broomfield reasoned that it could provide services more responsively under its own county government, and sought an amendment to the Colorado State Constitution to create a new county.

The Mount Laurel Decision is a judicial interpretation of the New Jersey State Constitution that requires municipalities to use their zoning powers in an affirmative manner to provide a realistic opportunity for the production of housing affordable to low and moderate income households.

The bill did not provide for the submission of the constitution to popular vote, and the silence on this point of the territorial law under which the Lecompton Constitution of Kansas was framed in 1857 was the crux of the Lecompton struggle.