Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

The constitution also set out rules in such matters as marriage, divorce and inheritance, guidelines for mutual cooperation and support among Ismā ' īlīs, and their interface with other communities.

Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

He also gives a brief account of the constitution of a Roman army at that time.

It is also largely accepted in most jurisdictions that this principle can be overridden in the company's constitution.

A treaty which establishes an international organization is also its constitution, in that it would define how that organization is constituted.

The Gayanashagowa, the oral constitution of the Iroquois nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance in which sachems ( tribal chiefs ) of the members of the Iroquois League made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single tribe.

Later on, Fascist Italy could also be considered as a " constitutional monarchy " of a kind, in the sense that there was a king as the titular head of state while actual power was held by Benito Mussolini under a constitution.

Maguire had also been contacted by supporters of Gerry Adams, then and now President of Sinn Féin, and a supporter of the change in the Provisional IRA constitution.

The author of India's constitution Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was also an alumnus of Columbia.

The act also codified many previously oral constitutional conventions and has made amendment of the constitution significantly more difficult.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

He also advanced a modernist constitution that incorporated equal rights and individual freedoms.

Two months later, the Junta approved a constitution for the state of Quito that provided for democratic governing institutions but also granted recognition to the authority of Ferdinand should he return to the Spanish throne.

The constitution, also known as the, or the, was drawn up under the Allied occupation that followed World War II and was intended to replace Japan's previous militaristic and absolute monarchy system with a form of liberal democracy.

The new constitution also replaced the Legislative Council with the Legislative Assembly, and better explained the role of the Governor and the Chief Executive.

The National Constituent Assembly functioned not only as a legislature, but also as a body to draft a new constitution.

While most of these migrations had an economic background, Germany has also been a prime destination for refugees from many developing countries, in part because its constitution long had a clause giving a ' right ' to political asylum, but restrictions over the years have since made it less attractive.

The statement also announced the suspension of the constitution " as well as political and union activity ".

They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

The state constitution has provided since 1777 for the election of a lieutenant governor, who also acts as president of the state senate, to the same term ( keeping the same term lengths as the governor throughout all the constitutional revisions ).

Presided over by Jean-Sylvain Bailly, they made a ' solemn oath never to separate ' until a national constitution had been created.

In July 1970, Macias created a single-party state and by May 1971, key portions of the constitution were abrogated.

In March 1994, the PGE created a constitutional commission charged with drafting a constitution flexible enough to meet the current needs of a population suffering from 30 years of civil war as well as those of the future, when stability and prosperity change the political landscape.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

The new constitution created the Directoire () and the first bicameral legislature in French history.

In memorial of this " Hour of birth of democracy ", the 11th August was created as Constitution Day, because the President of the Empire, Friedrich Ebert, signed the constitution on this day.

Come June, the third estate, joined by members of the other two, declared itself to be a National Assembly and swore an oath not to dissolve until France had a constitution and created, in July, the National Constituent Assembly.

On March 19, 1812, the Cádiz Cortes created the first modern Spanish constitution, the Constitution of 1812 ( informally named La Pepa ).

The new constitution created a bicameral parliament, consisting of an Assembly ( Vouli ) and a Senate ( Gerousia ).

The new constitution created the Directory and the first bicameral legislature in French history.

The new constitution abolished the Albanian Senate and created a unicameral National Assembly, but King Zog retained the dictatorial powers he had enjoyed as President.

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.

* 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders ", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.

A new constitution, approved in 1974, created a one-party state and was designed to move Mali toward civilian rule.

A new constitution, approved in 1974, created a one-party state and was designed to move Mali toward civilian rule.

In 1936, the Soviet Union adopted a new constitution that ended weighted voting preference for workers as in its previous constitutions, and created universal suffrage for all people over the age of eighteen.

The largest union, CESTRAR, was created as an organ of the government but became fully independent with the political reforms introduced by the 1991 constitution.

Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death.

When Congress created the Michigan Territory in 1805, it used the Northwest Ordinance's language to define the southern boundary, which therefore differed from that in Ohio's state constitution.

The Spanish government in exile ( Cádiz Cortes ) created the first modern Spanish constitution.

* August 15 – By act of the U. S. Congress ( March 3 ), the Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is drafted, four months before Mississippi became a State of the United States.

* The National Congress of Belgium was a temporary legislative assembly in 1830, which created a constitution for the new state.

The current constitution, created in 1982, states in Article V that no organization or individual is above the law and in Article III makes the People ’ s Congresses and state administration responsible to the people, paving the way for later efforts to allow enforcement of individual rights.

In his first publication, " The Constitutions of France " ( 1944 ), he explained that the French constitution of 1940 created a " de facto government ".