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 ).

In addition, while formally the Emperor's duties include appointing the Prime Minister to office, article 6 of the constitution requires him to appoint the candidate " as designated by the Diet " ( in practice, the candidate designated by the House of Representatives ), without any right to decline appointment.

The constitution requires that the Council of Representatives enact a law which provides the procedures for forming a new region 6 months from the start of its first session.

The party's constitution requires that a leadership election be held within six months of a general election.

* Tennessee, whose state constitution requires its supreme court to sit at three coequal locations ( Nashville, Knoxville, and Jackson ).

Sometimes what the legislature wishes to accomplish cannot be done simply by the passage of a bill, but rather requires amending the state constitution.

As such, the constitution instructs that any change to the position of the monarch or his or her representatives in Canada requires the consent of the Senate, the House of Commons, and the legislative assemblies of all the provinces.

The German constitution, the Basic Law, requires that it be convened no later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of office of the president ( which is five years ).

Registration requires the organization to create legally sound constitution, which must be approved by the Registry office.

The constitution requires that constituency boundaries be reviewed at least once in every twelve years, so that boundaries may be redrawn to accommodate changes in population.

Because Peru's constitution requires the president to have been born in Peru, this would have made Fujimori ineligible to be president.

Although the AFL – CIO constitution requires that all state and local unions affiliate with the appropriate state and local AFL – CIO body, in practice this is not enforced.

The Swedish constitution requires that the Prime Minister appoints one of the ministers in the cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister, in case the Prime Minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties.

Passing an amendment to the ROC constitution now requires an unusually broad political consensus, which includes approval from three-fourths of the quorum of members of the Legislative Yuan.

The constitution requires the President give an update on the state of the union " from time to time ", but no specifics are outlined.

In San Francisco, for example, it is known as the Board of Supervisors ; San Francisco is a consolidated city-county and the California constitution requires each county to have a Board of Supervisors.

* Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 ; 744 A. 2d 864 ( Vt. 1999 ) ( Common Benefits Clause of the state constitution requires that same-sex couples be granted the same legal rights as married persons )

The state constitution requires the governor to address the legislature periodically regarding the state of the Commonwealth.

Irish constitutional law requires a referendum to alter the constitution for such a major change as the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty.

This theory is at odds with the concept of constitutional law, which requires all laws to be specifically enabled, and thereby sub-divisions, of a constitution.

In July 2012, Webb appointed Miami-based Enrique Sanz as the CONCACAF General Secretary paving the way for CONCACAF to relocate as the CONCACAF constitution requires the Headquarters to reside in the same city as the General Secretary.

Title X of the Constitution establishes that the approval of a new constitution or the approval of any constitutional amendment affecting the Preliminary Title, or Section I of Chapter II of Title I ( on Fundamental Rights and Public Liberties ) or Title II ( on the Crown ), the so-called " protected provisions ", are subject to a special process that requires ( 1 ) that two-thirds of each House approve the amendment, ( 2 ) that elections are called immediately thereafter, ( 3 ) that two-thirds of each new House approves the amendment, and ( 4 ) that the amendment is approved by the people in a referendum.

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 ).

Since the 1938 constitution, the lieutenant governor explicitly becomes governor upon such vacancy in the office.

As part of the process bringing the constitution into effect, there was a single one-year term of governor in 1851.

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

The constitution of 1950 distinguished between three main types of states: Part A states, which were the former governors ' provinces of British India, were ruled by an elected governor and state legislature.

The lifespan of parliament is limited by the constitution to five years and, though the governor general may still, on the advice of the prime minister, dissolve parliament and issue the writs of election prior to the date mandated by the Canada Elections Act ; the King-Byng Affair was the only time since Confederation that the viceroy deemed it necessary to refuse his prime minister's request for a general vote.

Under the constitution, Nevis has considerable autonomy and has an island assembly, a premier, and a deputy governor general.

The Governor General exercises basically ceremonial functions, but residual powers, under the constitution, can be used at the governor general's discretion.

On October 17, 1739, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni, legate ( papal governor ) of Ravenna who in 1739, aiding certain rebels, possibly contrary to the orders of Pope Clement XII, used military force to occupy the country, imposed a new constitution, and endeavored to force the Sanmarinesi to submit to the government of the Papal States.

In the October 1835 elections, voters approved the draft constitution and elected the popular Mason as state governor.

Rewriting the state constitution became Marshall's central focus as governor, and after the General Assembly refused to call a constitutional convention he began to seek alternative means by which to have a new constitution adopted.

The Indiana constitution prevented Marshall from serving a consecutive term as governor.

** The British governor of Aden cancels the constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.

Although the constitution of Canada states that the " Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen ," the governor general acts in her place as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces and is permitted through the 1947 Letters Patent to use the title Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

Each state has a constitution, a governor elected for six years, and a unicameral legislature, with representatives elected by district vote in proportion to population.

The governor was required to comply with and enforce the constitution and the laws and to promulgate the decrees enacted by the departmental board.

Per the Canadian constitution, the responsibilities of the sovereign and / or governor general include summoning and dismissing parliament, calling elections, and appointing governments.

The Crown also sits at the pinnacle of the Canadian Forces, with the constitution placing the monarch in the position of commander-in-chief of the entire force, though the governor general carries out the duties attached to the position and also bears the title of Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

The government of Canada — formally termed Her Majesty's Government — is defined by the constitution as the Queen acting on the advice of her Privy Council ; what is technically known as the Queen-in-Council, or sometimes the Governor-in-Council, referring to the governor general as the Queen's stand-in.

To stop the bickering and resultant legislative paralysis, in 1928 the Colonial Office announced a new constitution that would make British Guiana a crown colony under tight control of a governor appointed by the Colonial Office.