A major protagonist for the Constitution of the United States, and the single greatest contributor to the Federalist Papers, advocating for the constitution's ratification through detailed examinations of its construction, philosophical and moral basis, and intent.

The constitution's entrenched clauses protected voting rights, including those of some Coloureds, but they lost their votes after the Government packed the Senate and Supreme Court with its sympathisers in what is known as the Coloured vote constitutional crisis.

The constitution's preamble is much longer than its counterpart in the United States Constitution.

Although relatively few of these provisions are exceptional, some of the constitution's features are noteworthy ; including its ideological content, its provision for the role of the military, and its dual presidential-parliamentary system.

The constitution's parliamentary sections had the support of PS, the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ), and the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ); its socialistic content had the support of the PCP and its allies and the PS.

As of 2012, GDS adheres to its own constitution's aims and rules, and is governed by a committee of trustees, officers and elected representatives.

Generally, every modern written constitution confers specific powers to an organization or institutional entity, established upon the primary condition that it abides by the said constitution's limitations.

The constitution's 187 articles specify specific policies such as sharia law, a " unitary ruling system " headed by a caliph elected by Muslims, an economy based on the gold standard, public ownership of utilities, public transport, and energy resources, and Arabic as the " sole language of the State.

Schmidt used all means at his disposal to alleviate the situation, even when that meant overstepping his legal authority, including federal police and army units ( ignoring the German constitution's prohibition on using the army for " internal affairs "; a clause excluding disasters was not added until 1968 ).

Moore had been ordered to remove the controversial monument by U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson, who in a judgment in 2002 said the monument " violates the constitution's ban on government promotion of a religious doctrine ".

The constitution's provisions on religion drew international controversy in 2006, when Afghan-born Abdul Rahman, a convert from Islam to Christianity outside Afghanistan, was threatened with the death penalty for apostasy.

The constitution's civil rights are based on the Constitution of the United States of 1787, especially the Bill of Rights.

That year, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution's equal protection clause presumed single-member districts and was thus a limitation on the Whole County Provision.

He served on the convention's Committee on Bill of Rights and Elections, and he authored much of the new constitution's Declaration of Rights.

The opinion number 105 of 15 April 1983 ; given by the State Council, Section V, in a consultative session ; determined that by effect of Decision 30 of 1983 by the Constitutional Court, the individuals born to an Italian citizen mother only as far back as 1 January 1948 could be considered Italian citizens, on the premise that the effectiveness of the decision could not retroact further than the moment when the contradiction between the old law and the new constitution emerged, which was 1 January 1948, the date of the constitution's entry into effect.

Though partaking of the existing principle of unconstitutionality, according to which the pronouncement of unconstitutionality of the pre-constitutional rules produces effects only upon the relations and situations not yet concluded as of the date 1 January 1948, not being capable of retroacting earlier than the constitution's entry into force ; the Court affirms that the right of citizenship, since it is a permanent and inviolable status except where it is renounced on the part of the petitioner, is justifiable at any time ( even in the case of the prior death of the ascendant or parent of whomever derives the recognition ) because of the enduring nature, even after the entry into force of the constitution, of an illegitimate privation due to the discriminatory rules pronounced unconstitutional.

Despite the constitution's provisions for democracy, in practice, until 2011, Kim Jong-il exercised absolute control over the government and the country.

In all three occurrences it is doubtful whether the motives for that dissolution were in accordance with the constitution's intentions.

The Chancery Court held that the statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which protects citizens from state interference with freedom of speech and thought as contained in the constitution's First Amendment.

The constitution's adoption met with hostile political and military responses from the Commonwealth's neighbors.

One of the constitution's more interesting aspects was the inclusion of the Jewish tribes in the Ummah because although the Jewish tribes were " one community with the believers ," they also " have their religion and the Muslims have theirs.

Hart, who refers to the theory as a ` needless duplication ' of the ` living reality ' of the courts and officials actually identifying the law in accordance with the constitution's rules.

Legal commentators have remarked that the McGarvie Model is broadly consistent with the constitution's existing arrangements under the monarchy and that it requires the least change to constitutional practice.

The first amendments, enacted in 1982, dealt with the constitution's political arrangements.

The constitution's Article 81 designates it " the court of last resort with power to determine the constitutionality of any law, order, regulation, or official act.

The decision determined that the first clause of article 1 of this law was in clear contrast with the constitution's articles 3 ( first paragraph-equality before the law without regard to sex, etc.

This provision, in concert with opinion number 105 of 15 April 1983, has provided that children of an Italian citizen mother and an alien father born before 1 January 1948 ( date of the republican constitution's entry into force ) remain subject to the old law 555 of 13 June 1912, despite the Constitutional Court's pronouncement of unconstitutionality in decision 30 of 1983.

Some commentators have suggested that the difficulty of the amendment process was favoured by the constitution's American authors from a desire that the fundamentals of the regime they had imposed would be resistant to change.

It is also alleged that he changed his official birth date from 1951 to 1950 in order to meet the new constitution's requirement that the president be at least 35 years old.

The constitution's replacement, the Treaty of Lisbon, was also voted down by the Irish before they reversed their decision in 2009.

The dates of this constitution's operation are unknown: the League was formed in approximately 1000 – 1450, but the constitution was oral until written in about 1880.

The first time this came into use was five years after the constitution's adoption in 1785, when Governor John Hancock resigned the post, leaving Lieutenant Governor Thomas Cushing as acting Governor.

This very wide conception of " amendment " eased the rise of Adolf Hitler to power ; it was thus explicitly denied in the new postwar constitution, which allows amendments only by explicitly changing the constitution's text.

The constitution's title was the same as the Constitution of the German Empire that preceded it.

Although the decision by Justice William Cushing was firmly based in the language of the state constitution's reference that " all men are born free and equal ", Lincoln in his arguments instead appealed to natural law and God's law.

Giles v. Harris, 189 U. S. 475 ( 1903 ), was an early 20th century United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state constitution's requirements for voter registration and qualifications.

He supported Quebec premier Robert Bourassa's use of the Canadian constitution's notwithstanding clause to prohibit outdoor English-language signs, and expressed regret that the ban was not extended to indoor signs.

He was a member of the Essex County convention of 1778 — called to protest against the proposed state constitution — and as a member of the " Essex Junto " was probably the author of The Essex Result, which helped to secure the constitution's rejection at the polls.

As a result, the Committee was effectively dissolved and replaced by an ad hoc body ( referred to as the " Leadership Council "), which was composed of approximately 6 members and which continued to negotiate the constitution's final terms until three days before the referendum date.

However, support for the constitution was weakest among Iraq's Sunni Arab community, and some observers thought that the Sunni vote would result in the constitution's rejection.

Because law 555 of 1912 underwent revision to meet the republican constitution's requirement that the sexes be equal before the law, a determination of citizenship for a child involves an analysis of the events of both parents and possibly the ascendants of both.