He stated, " he Act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning in the territory of the United States north of the line therein is not warranted by the Constitution and is therefore void.

On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is " to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The Constitution of Brazil knows also two elements of direct democracy, stated in Article 14.

Anthropologist Dean Snow stated that though Franklin's Albany Plan may have drawn some inspiration from the Iroquois League, there is little evidence that either the Plan or the Constitution drew substantially from this source and argues that "... such claims muddle and denigrate the subtle and remarkable features of Iroquois government.

Their stated goals include rigorous adherence to the U. S. Constitution, lower taxes, and opposition to a growing role for the federal government in health care.

Article 2 of the 1889 Meiji Constitution ( the Constitution of the Empire of Japan ) stated, " The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by imperial male descendants, according to the provisions of the Imperial House Law.

Such decisions are usually taken on the advice of the Prime Minister, although that is not stated in the Constitution.

Article 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of China originally stated that " he territory of the Republic of China within its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by a resolution of the National Assembly ", although recent constitutional changes have moved this power to that of a national referendum.

The Resolution stated that when the national government acts beyond the scope of the Constitution, the states " have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them ".

The leadership of the Communist Party is stated in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

It stated that the U. S. Justice Department in 1959 reiterated that Congress held power over Puerto Rico pursuant to the Territorial Clause of the U. S. Constitution.

The aim of the organization, as stated in its Constitution, became " to advance parapsychology as a science, to disseminate knowledge of the field, and to integrate the findings with those of other branches of science ".

All the political part of the English Constitution is fully understood, and distinctly stated in Blackstone and many other books, but the Ministerial part, the work of conducting the executive government, has rested so much on practice, on usage, on understanding, that there is no particular publication to which reference can be made for the explanation and description of it.

( The Constitution of Ireland in Article 3 explicitly stated that " ending the re-integration of the national territory " the authority of the Irish state did not extend to Northern Ireland.

The stated clerk is the chief ecclesial officer and serves as the presbytery's executive secretary and parliamentarian in accordance with the church Constitution and Robert's Rules of Order.

Article 81 of the Constitution stated that " the sovereign rights of Union Republics shall be safeguarded by the USSR ".

The Religious Preference provisions of the Tennessee Constitution ( section 3 of article 1 ) stated, " no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.

Marshall appealed, but the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the decision in a judgment which stated that the Constitution of Indiana could not be replaced in total without a constitutional convention, based on the precedent set by Indiana's first two constitutions.

He also stated that by defining treason in the U. S. Constitution and placing it in Article III " the founders intended the power to be checked by the judiciary, ruling out trial by military commission.

" As previously stated, the Constitution requires the concurrence of at least two-thirds of the members present of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to a joint resolution which proposes a constitutional amendment.

At the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention, when debating the ratification of the new United States Constitution, Patrick Henry stated, " One of our first complaints, under the former government, was the quartering of troops among us.

The Constitution Party has stated that this system would give U. S. companies a better chance at competing with countries, like Mexico and China, which have lower labor costs.

In a letter he wrote in 1821, he stated " the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself ; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it recd.

This operation was remarkably successful, and by 1977 the Afghan government of Mohammed Daoud Khan was willing to settle all outstanding issues in exchange for a lifting of the ban on the National Awami Party and a commitment towards provincial autonomy for Pashtuns, which was already guaranteed by Pakistan's Constitution, but stripped by the Bhutto government when the One Unit scheme was introduced.

* Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which changed Pakistan's government from a parliamentary system to a semi-presidential system

It was Pakistan's first ever constitution by consensus unlike two earlier constitutions, the Constitution of 1956 and the Constitution of 1962.

The Presidency of Pakistan's powers had been slowly removed over the years, culminating in the 1997 Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan which removed virtually all remaining reserve powers, making the office almost entirely symbolic in nature as per the true spirit of the Pakistani constitution.

The National Assembly, Pakistan's sovereign legislative body, makes laws for the federation under powers spelled out in the Federal Legislative List and also for subjects in the Concurrent List, as given in the fourth schedule of the Constitution.

The de jure powers of the court as outlined in the Constitution can only be understood in the context of Pakistan's political history, during which the armed forces has seized power, declared martial law and suspended the constitution.

Pakistan's Constitution and laws are written in English.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

The DPP supported reform of the Constitution that would make it official that Taiwan's national government represented only the people of Taiwan and made no claims to territory in mainland China or Mongolia.

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.

For the impeachment of any other official, the Constitution is silent on who shall preside, suggesting that this role falls to the Senate's usual presiding officer.

The Constitution of India recognizes Marathi as one of India's twenty-two official languages.

Article 58. 1 of the April 18, 1999, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ( official, French version ) provides that " Switzerland has an army.

On December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the case of the German Empire ( 1871-1918 ), the official name was Deutsches Reich, is literally translated as " German Realm ", because formally the official position of its head of state, in the Constitution of the German Empire, was a " presidency " of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia.

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

The Spanish Constitution of 1978 abolished the Roman Catholic Church as the official state religion, while recognizing the role it plays in Spanish society.

* 1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.

Schemata on ecumenism ( Unitatis Redintegratio ), the official view on Protestant and Eastern Orthodox " separated brethren ", the Eastern Rite churches ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum ), and the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church ( Lumen Gentium ) were approved and promulgated by the Pope.

While the Constitution declares Islam as the official religion, with ceremonial rulers as head of Islam in their respective states, other religions may be freely practiced ( albeit with restrictions against proselytizing to Muslims ).

* Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States: Annotated constitution, with descriptions of important cases ( official publication of U. S. Senate )

The party's official name was changed to The Constitution Party in 1999 ; however, some state affiliate parties are known under different names.

Former Reagan Administration official and Christian activist Alan Keyes had actively sought the Constitution nod after ending a bid for the GOP nomination.

In early 2006, Christopher H. Hansen, the gubernatorial candidate of Independent American Party of Nevada ( the Constitution Party state affiliate in Nevada ), and candidates in Colorado and Idaho, publicly expressed support for accepting abortions in the cases of rape, incest, and for abortions performed to save the life of the mother, which were contrary to the official Nevada platform.

Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia ( Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic ) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

John works through the eunuch Eutropius, who has great power over emperor Arcadius, and within a week an imperial Constitution is issued closing the temples, but the official appointed to execute this order is bribed.

The Constitution of Indonesia 1945 Chapter XV specifies the flag, official language, coat of arms, and national anthem of Indonesia.

Since its conception in 1928 and its official recognition in 1945 Constitution, the Indonesian language has been loaded with nationalist political agenda on unifying Indonesia ( former Dutch East Indies ).

The French Constitutional Drafting Committee produced translations of all the British North America Acts, pursuant to section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982, but these were never enacted by Parliament to make them official.

As defined in the Constitution of Afghanistan, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan ; the other is Pashto.