However, the Constitutional Law Committee ( Finnish: perustuslakivaliokunta, Swedish: grundlagsutskottet ) of the parliament reviews any doubtful bills and recommends changes, if needed.

In practice, the Constitutional Law Committee fulfills the duties of a constitutional court.

In addition to preview by the Constitutional Law Committee, all Finnish courts of law have the obligation to give precedence to the constitution when there is an obvious conflict between the constitution and a regular law.

There is no constitutional court ; matters concerning constitutional rights or constitutional law are processed by the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament ( perustuslakivaliokunta ).

Additionally, the Constitutional Committee has the sole power to refer a case to the High Court of Impeachment ( valtakunnanoikeus ) and to authorize police investigations for this purpose.

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 '.

He then served in the German delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and as advisor to the Confidential Committee for Constitutional Reform, which drafted the Weimar Constitution.

Due to the deteriorating relationship between the Nevis Island Administration and the Federal Government, a Constitutional Committee was appointed in April 1996 to advise on whether or not the present constitutional arrangement between the islands should continue.

* Constitutional Accountability Committee

* Senator the Hon John Herron, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs to the Senate Legal And Constitutional References Committee, " Inquiry Into The Stolen Generation " Federal Government Submission, March 2000

A Joint Committee on Reconstruction found that only a Constitutional amendment could protect black people's rights and welfare within those states.

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.

On 20 October 2006, Ulf Holm, a Member of Parliament for the Green Party, reported the Foreign Minister to the Riksdag Constitutional Committee in order to determine whether Bildt's private economic affairs might represent a conflict of interest.

The work by the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament could not find any grounds for questioning the activities of Bildt in these regards.

New York: Committee for Constitutional Government, 1950.

On 31 March 2010, Pakistan's Constitutional Reform Committee agreed that the province be renamed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

On 26 June 2003, the Senate referred an Inquiry into an Australian Republic to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee.

On January 6, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh ( Kefauver's successor as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ) proposed in the Senate and Representative Emanuel Celler ( Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee ) proposed in the House of Representatives what would become the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Christian Adolph Diriks, who was the legal secretary of the Constitutional Committee, was the assembly's resident expert on foreign constitutions, and played an important part in shaping the language of the constitution.

After Finland gained its independence in December 1917, the Constitutional Committee drafted new proposals for a form of government of an independent Republic of Finland.

During the first half of 1970 Oaks took a leave of absence from the University of Chicago while serving as legal counsel to the Bill of Rights Committee of the Illinois Constitutional Convention, which caused him to work closely with the committee chair, Elmer Gertz.

After Dragan Maršićanin resigned his post on 6 December 2001 as a result of the growing conflict between DSS MPs and the remaining DOS MPs, Mićić immediately replaced him as the president of National Assembly and the chairman of its Constitutional Committee.

He served as a member of the Executive Government Advisory Committee of the Constitutional Commission ( 1985 – 87 ).

He served as a member of the Executive Government Advisory Committee for the Constitutional Commission in 1986 and 1987, chaired by Sir Zelman Cowen.

* Constitutional Commission, Executive Government Advisory Committee, Report ( AGPS, 1987 ).

* 1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments ( The United States Bill of Rights ) to the States for ratification.

The last and only proposed Constitution adopted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention in 2009 was rejected by the U. S. Congress in 2010, which urged the convention to reconvene to address the concerns Congress and the Obama administration have had with the proposed document.

A Congressional resolution disapproving of the proposed constitution and requesting that the Fifth Constitutional Convention reconvene to consider changes to address these issues was signed into law by President Obama on June 30, 2010.

Under the terms of Article V of the U. S. Constitution, state lawmakers retain the power to ratify Constitutional amendments which have been proposed by the Congress and they also retain the ability to apply to the Congress for a national convention to directly propose Constitutional amendments to the states for ratification.

Allende assumed the presidency on 3 November 1970 after signing a Statute of Constitutional Guarantees proposed by the Christian Democrats in return for their support in Congress.

* Constitutional ( or charter )-a referendum which is held to ratify a proposed constitution or constitutional amendment

The bi-partisan recommendations of committee supported educational initiatives and holding a series of plebiscites to allow the public to choose which model they preferred, prior to a final draft and referendum, along the lines of plebiscites proposed by John Howard at the 1998 Constitutional Convention.

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 Constitutional Convention in 1787 used the Virginia Plan as the basis for discussions, as the Virginia delegation had proposed it first.

Their meeting, which came to be known as the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention, established the proposed State of Sequoyah.

This was soon proposed, and in 1907 the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention met in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory to create the new State of Oklahoma.

During these deliberations it became clear that the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention had been groundbreaking: the Guthrie meeting essentially adopted almost exactly the same boundaries for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma as were proposed earlier for Sequoyah, again identifying Antlers as county seat.

* Constitutional amendment initiative is a constitutionally-defined petition process of " proposed constitutional law ", which, if successful, results in its provisions being written directly into the state's constitution.

The Workers ' Party helped write the country's post-military government Constitution, ensuring strong constitutional guarantees for workers ' rights, but failed to achieve a proposed push for agrarian reform in the Constitutional text.

Constitutional amendments proposed by Buenos Aires were adopted in 1860 but the settlement was short-lived, and further difficulties culminated in civil war.

Passage of the proposed Amendment failed 227 yea votes to 186 nay votes, where 290 yea votes ( two-thirds ) are required for passage of a proposed Constitutional amendment.

In 1897 Edmund Barton topped the poll of the delegates elected from New South Wales to the Constitutional Convention which developed a constitution for the proposed federation.

* Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed United States Constitutional amendment

An international panel of legal experts proposed the “ creation of a Constitutional Convention under European Union auspices and on the basis of the 1960 Cyprus Constitution to bring together the parties directly concerned in order to reach a settlement in conformity with the Fundamental Principles .”

On 13 July 2004, the House amended the Constitutional Reform Bill such that the title of Lord Chancellor would be retained, although the Government's other proposed reforms were left intact.