Thus the constitution's preamble said that " socialism has won in our country " and so " finishing the socialist construction, we are changing over to building an advanced socialist society and gathering strength for the transition to communism.

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

Modern India came into existence in 1947 as a secular nation and the Indian constitution's preamble states that India is a secular state.

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

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 court also ruled that the state constitution's due process clause did not extend any additional protection.

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.

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 taxpayer contended that reimbursement given for children attending private religious schools violated the constitutional prohibition against state support of religion, and the taking of taxpayers ' money to do so violated the constitution's Due Process Clause.

The constitution's acceptance, and the possible long-term consequences it may have had, is arguably the reason for which the powers of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Prussia then decided to partition the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; thus putting an end to over 300 years of Polish parliamentary continuity.

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.

The constitution's close modelling of its institutional system on the Westminster system of government, specifically with the inclusion of a parliament from whom a ministry was both chosen and to whom it was answerable, has been noted by Irish political scientists and historians, notably Professor Brian Farrell, who suggested that the leaders of the new state stuck to a system that, through Irish participation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the new Irish political elite had close experience of, and identification with, notwithstanding their radical republican rhetoric.

Tusk stated that the Hungarian constitution's democratic controversies were " exaggerated " and that Hungary had " a European level standard of democracy.

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.

Other current Commonwealth citizens who fulfill certain requirements such as having ordinary and lawful residence for seven years ( which must have been completed before 30 Nov 1966, per the constitution's Chapter II, section 3. 2.

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.

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

The constitution's bill of rights provides extensive guarantees, including equality before the law and prohibitions against discrimination ; the right to life, privacy, property, and freedom and security of the person ; prohibition against slavery and forced labour ; and freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and association.

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 1910 mid-term elections gave the Democrats control of the Indiana Senate, increasing the constitution's chances of being adopted.

The parliamentary election, the first held under the new constitution's guarantee of universal suffrage to all citizens 18 years of age or older, excluded all parties except the PDPU and the pro-government Progress of the Fatherland Party, despite earlier promises that all parties would be free to participate.

The Vermont Republic's constitution's Declaration of Rights of the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont anticipates the United States Bill of Rights by a dozen years.

While he did not challenge the Party constitution's stated dedication to nationalisation head-on, he took little action to pursue it.

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

These included the constitution's most distinctive features: the symbolic role of the Emperor, the prominence of guarantees of civil and human rights, and the renunciation of war.

The constitutional framework of the politics of Austria and the marrow of the constitution's practical implementation are widely agreed to be robust and adequately conducive to peaceful change.

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.

It is clear that the city of Nauvoo's actions against the Expositor violated the Illinois constitution's freedom-of-press provision.

* August 22: The constitution's draft is presented to the Iraqi Parliament.

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 preamble was also written in Latin, as were sections to report the ceremonies.

Linguistic amendments were also included ; the line in the preamble emphasising that authors possessed books as they would any other piece of property was dropped, and the bill moved from something designed " for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof " to a bill " for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies ".

The Convention also made recommendations about a preamble to the Constitution, and a proposed preamble was also put to referendum.

The preamble referendum question was also defeated, with a Yes vote of only 39 per cent.

In some areas, the term kedaulatan rakyat (' exercising the sovereignty of the people ') – which is mentioned in the preamble of the Constitution and used by pemuda to demand pro-active policies from leaders – came to be used not only in the demanding of free goods, but also to justify extortion and robbery.

" The revised treaty also includes in it the preamble " Reaffirming their respect for each other's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity ", an element that was absent in the earlier version.

The Bosnian Constitutional Court, particularly citing the case law of the Supreme Court of Canada, also declared that the provisions of the preamble of the Bosnian Constitution are invested with a normative force thereby serving as a sound standard of judicial review for the Constitutional Court.

He also proposed a new preamble for the Constitution and amendments necessary to reflect a minimalist Republican model.

It also issued a preamble position in 2008.

' Expatriation ' has also been used in a legal sense to mean ' renunciation of allegiance ;' the U. S. Expatriation Act of 1868 said in its preamble, ' the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Since then, it is assumed that the " constitutional block " includes not only the Constitution, but also the other texts referred to in its preamble: the Declaration, but also the preamble of the 1946 Constitution ( which adds a number of " social rights ", as well as the equality of males and females ) and the Environment Charter of 2004.

The preamble of On the Physician offers " a physical and moral portrait of the ideal physician ," and the Precepts also concern the physician's conduct.

For this reason, in Europe, the preamble of a claim is sometimes also called " pre-characterizing portion ".

* A preamble that recites the class of the invention, and optionally its primary properties, purpose, or field: " An apparatus ..." " A therapeutic method for treating cancer ..." " A composition having an affinity for protein X ..." This preamble may also reference another claim and refine it, e. g., " The method of claim 1 ..." ( See " dependent claim " below.

The Charter also has a preamble.

That ’ s the road to ruin ,” adding that “ To survive, the NDP has to turn left and offer Canadians and in particular working people, an alternative to the corporate agenda .” The faction also opposed a motion to remove the phrase " democratic socialism " from the preamble of the NDP's constitution and supported an unsuccessful resolution to bar the NDP from considering merger with the Liberal Party of Canada.

However, the same preamble also accused the Allies (" the plutocracies of the United States and England ") of collaborating with Stalin in trying to conquer, not liberate, Europe.