While the constitution guarantees the protection of human rights, in practice there are severe limits on freedom of expression, and the government supervises the lives of the people closely.

" His spokesman then outlined a plan in which a referendum could be held in mid 2009, not to amend the 1999 constitution, but to scrap it and begin work on a constitution of the Sixth Republic of Niger, which would contain no term limits for the President, and create a fully Presidential republic.

Their legislatures represent the people of the community, exercising legislative power within the limits set forth in the constitution of Spain and the degree of devolution that the community has attained.

In June, 2012, electoral reforms prompted protesters to take to the street in Lomé for several days ; protesters sought a return to the 1992 constitution that would re-establish presidential term limits.

The constitution was amended again in 1996 to set new limits on the presidency ( including a retroactive two-term limit, and a requirement that both parents of a candidate be Zambian-born ).

The Statutes of Autonomy establish the name of the community according to its historical identity, the limits of their territories, the name and organization of the institutions of government and the rights they enjoy according the constitution.

In August 2005, Parliament voted to change the constitution to lift presidential term limits, allowing Museveni to run for a third term if he wishes to do so.

After the KMT lost the Mainland in the Chinese Civil War, the government was evacuated to Taiwan, where the term limits for the President specified in the 1947 constitution were suspended.

Nonetheless a strong president could exercise authority beyond the limits laid down in the 1922 constitution < sup > 1 </ sup >.

The Administration also urged Aristide to stick closely to neoliberal economics and to abide by the Caribbean nation ’ s constitution — which gives substantial political power to the Parliament while imposing tight limits on the Executive.

Wayne County is Michigan's first " charter county ", with a home rule charter setting up its structures within limits set in state law and constitution.

This energetic prince disregarded the limits placed to his authority by the rudimentary constitution.

Each state is free to set the conditions for a valid marriage, subject to limits set by the state's own constitution and the U. S. Constitution.

The 1993 constitution limits a presidency to two terms.

The powers of provinces are circumscribed by the national constitution which limits them to certain listed " functional areas ".

Basically, a modern federal government, within the limits defined by its constitution, has the power to make laws for the whole country, unlike local governments.

Botanical historian Alan Morton notes that Theophrastus in his Enquiry into Plants " had an inkling of the limits of culturally induced ( phenotypic ) changes and of the importance of genetic constitution " ( Historia Plantarum III, 2, 2 and Causa Plantarum I, 9, 3 ).

The third group consisted of people who engaged in electoral politics within the narrow limits defined by the constitution and whose goals included a " Natives First " campaign and an extension of the franchise to elect a more representative government.

The Basic Law ( i. e. the German constitution ) of the Federal Republic of Germany strictly limits the reserve powers available to the President to prevent the situation in which the executive could effectively rule without legislative approval, which was the case in the Weimar Republic.

By this model, " important legal effects " including constitutional obligations and limits, may be created by the Bill of Rights implied into the Constitution, quite apart from an application of the written constitution.

Thus, Rivadavia, Urquiza and Mitre and considered the first presidents of Argentina by different historians: Rivadavia for being the first one to use the title, Urquiza for being the first one to rule under the 1853 constitution, and Mitre for being the first president of Argentina under its current national limits.

Danish agitators of German nationality could not be touched so long as they were careful to keep within the limits of the law ; pro-Danish newspapers owned and staffed by German subjects enjoyed immunity in accordance with the constitution, which guarantees the liberty of the press.

In some countries, the state of emergency and its effects on human rights and freedoms and governmental procedure are regulated by the constitution and / or a law that limits the powers that may be invoked.

The powers of the legislature include enactment and amendment of the constitution and laws ; adoption of the government budget, declarations of war and peace, defining national boundaries, calling referenda and elections, appointments and relief of officers, supervising the Government of Croatia and other holders of public powers responsible to the Sabor, and granting of amnesties.

Before his return, he commented on the drafting of the state's constitution ; he continued to support freehold suffrage, by which only property holders could vote.

Its powers includes the enactment and amendment of the constitution and laws ; the adoption of the government budget ; supervising the Government of Vietnam and other holders of public powers responsible to the National Assembly ; and appointing members of the judiciary.

A new constitution was drawn up which eased back some of the democratic elements of the constitution of 1793 establishing an electoral college for the election of officials, a bicameral legislature and other provisions designed to protect the current holders of power.

As a result, this constitution included such democratic provisions as virtual universal suffrage and annual elections of office holders.

Owing to the political constitution of the United Kingdom, in which the House of Commons retains most of the power, it is accepted that it is no longer practical for holders of the Great Offices of State to be members of the House of Lords.

Since the adoption of a new constitution, early in 2010, the politics of Angola takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Angola is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Although the 1988 constitution preserves the external and internal roles of the armed forces, it places the military under presidential authority.

The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

Following the convening of the newly elected People ’ s Assembly and Maglis al-Shura in March 2012, a committee was to draft a new constitution to replace the pre-revolutionary one, followed by presidential elections.

However, the Egyptian presidential election, 2012 occurred without a new constitution.

The 1962 constitution had provided the presidential system for both provincial states ( West Pakistan and East Pakistan ) that each states were given autonomy to run their separate presidential provincial governments.

Under the 1961 constitution ( revised in 1975 and rewritten in 1991 ), Gabon became a republic with a presidential form of government.

The 1975 constitution, which describes Greece as a " presidential parliamentary republic ", includes extensive specific guarantees of civil liberties and vests the powers of the head of state in a president elected by parliament.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

On June 5, 1993, Congress, pursuant to the 1985 constitution, elected the Human Rights Ombudsman, Ramiro de León Carpio, to complete Serrano's presidential term.

According to the constitution, the President of the National Assembly was to assume the Presidency of the Republic in the event of a vacancy, and a new presidential election was to be held within 60 days.

The method chosen by Carías to extend his term of office was to call a constituent assembly that would write a new constitution and select the individual to serve for the first presidential term under that document.

That constitution delineates mechanisms for amending it, but it also declares eight articles immutable and unalterable and not subject to change, which include a guarantees of a republican form of government, and an explicit prohibition against presidential candidacy of anyone who has been president previously at any time or for any reason.

The older the constitution, the more constitutional leeway tends to exist for a head of state to exercise greater powers over government, as many older parliamentary system constitutions in fact give heads of state powers and functions akin to presidential or semi-presidential systems, in some cases without containing reference to modern democratic principles of accountability to parliament or even to modern governmental offices.

Following the constitution, another presidential election was held, in which two brothers, Anote and Harry Tong, were the two main candidates ( the third one, Banuera Berina won just 9, 1 %).

On 3 August 2011, the NTC issued a Constitutional Declaration which declares the statehood of Libya as a democracy with Islam as its state religion, in which the state guarantees the rule of law and an independent judiciary as well as civic and human basic rights ( including freedom of religion and women's rights ), and which contains provisions for a phase of transition to a presidential republic with an elected national assembly and a democratically legitimized constitution by 2013.

Under the new constitution, Nasir was elected indirectly to a four-year presidential term by the Majlis ( legislature ).

In 1973 Nasir was elected to a second term under the constitution as amended in 1972, which extended the presidential term to five years and which also provided for the election of the prime minister by the Majlis.

On 22 March 2012, a group of junior soldiers seized control of the country's presidential palace and declared the government dissolved and its constitution suspended.

In 1992, Alpha Oumar Konaré won Mali's first democratic, multi-party presidential election, before being re-elected for a second term in 1997, which was the last allowed under the constitution.

After independence, President Moktar Ould Daddah, originally installed by the French, formalized Mauritania into a one-party state in 1964 with a new constitution, which set up an authoritarian presidential regime.

Burma ( also known as Myanmar ) is unitary presidential constitutional republic under the 2008 constitution.