On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

By a decree of 27 December 1999, the constitution was suspended and all the institutions of government were dissolved.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

The PRC adopted its current constitution on 4 December 1982.

On 1 December 1988, the Supreme Soviet amended the Soviet constitution to allow for the establishment of a Congress of People's Deputies as the Soviet Union's new supreme legislative body.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

This assembly adopted the constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in December 1994.

In October 1923, elections were called for December, which would form a National Assembly with powers to draft a new constitution.

In December 1976, Albania adopted its second Stalinist constitution of the postwar era.

After local and foreign pressure, in December 1991, parliament repealed the one-party section of the constitution.

On December 13, 1974, the constitution was revised, and Malta became a republic within the Commonwealth, with executive authority vested in the President of Malta which can be exercised directly or through officers subordinate to him.

Aided by an advisory council, he drew up a new constitution, which was approved overwhelmingly in a December 1962 referendum.

This would mean the government of Niger would carry out scheduled parliamentary elections in September, two months early, and a referendum on a new constitution before Presidential elections which can take place no later than December, assuming the 1999 constitution is in effect.

It restored the semi-presidential system of government of the December 1992 constitution ( Third Republic ) in which the president of the republic, elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term, and a prime minister named by the president share executive power.

In December 1991, a new constitution was drafted and subsequently adopted, after a popular referendum, which, however, attracted criticism from international observers who accused the government of manipulating the population and even of outright fraud.

A new constitution, creating a strong presidency, was approved by referendum in December 1993.

The constitution was adopted on 23 December 1991, effective 23 December 1991.

Reaction to the announcement was widespread and largely positive from both religious and secular leaders outside the Catholic Church, and the council was formally summoned by the apostolic constitution Humanae Salutis on 25 December 1961.

In December 1856, the Transvaal assembly met at Potchefstroom, and for three weeks was engaged in modelling the constitution 1856 of the country.

On December 9, 1961, Tanganika became an autonomous Commonwealth realm, and Nyerere became Prime Minister, under a new constitution.

Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

From 2002 to 2010, the system as defined by the constitution of 1992 functioned in a relatively normal way.

The constitution first approved in 1980 and substantially revised in 1992 forms the basis of government organization.

The electorate approved the current constitution in September 1992.

In 1991 the Republic of Estonia was restored on the basis of continuity with the constitution prior to 1938, with the public approving a new constitution in 1992.

In 1992, an amendment to the Michigan constitution imposed a lifetime term limit of two four-year terms for the office of governor.

In autumn 1992 Latvia reimplemented significant portions of its 1922 constitution and in spring 1993 the government took a census to determine eligibility for citizenship.

Lekhanya announced the establishment of the National Constituent Assembly to formulate a new constitution for Lesotho with the aim of returning the country to democratic, civilian rule by June 1992.

In a referendum on October 25, 1992 — the first general vote of the people since their declared independence — 56. 75 % of the total number of voters supported the new constitution.

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.

A national conference held in August 1991 produced a draft constitution ( approved in a referendum January 12, 1992 ), a charter for political parties, and an electoral code.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

The 1992 constitution provided that the president would be elected by popular vote rather than by the legislature as before.

The former constitution had last been amended in 1992.

* Estonia: Defined as a nation state in its 1992 constitution, up until the period of Soviet colonialisation, Estonia was historically a very homogenous state with 88. 2 % of residents being Estonians, 8. 2 % Russians, 1, 5 % Germans and 0. 4 % Jews according to the 1934 census.

The June 1992 constitution established a democratic system of government and dramatically improved protection of fundamental rights.

Paraguay's highly centralized government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which reinforced a division of powers that in the previous two Constitutions existed mostly on paper.

With the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990's, only the republics of Serbia and Montenegro agreed to maintain the Yugoslav state, and established a new constitution for a new Yugoslavia in 1992.

The Black May uprising, in 1992, lead to more reform when promulgating the 1997 constitution – " The People's Constitution " – aiming to create checks and balance of powers between strengthened government, separately elected senators and anti-corruption institutes.

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.

Under the 1992 constitution, the president is elected by popular vote for a five-year term.

Under the 1992 constitution, there are two parliamentary bodies, a unicameral People's Council or Halk Maslahaty ( supreme legislative body of up to 2, 500 delegates, some of whom are elected by popular vote and some of whom are appointed ; meets at least yearly ) and a unicameral Assembly or Mejlis ( 50 seats, scheduled to be increased to 65, whose members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms ).