But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.

The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

It was an era of constitution writing — most states were busy at the task — and leaders felt the new nation must have a written constitution, even though other nations did not.

Its constitution was ratified 1966 and came into effect 1967.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

It is most usual to date Athenian democracy from Cleisthenes, since Solon's constitution fell and was replaced by the tyranny of Peisistratus, whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes ' constitution relatively peacefully.

In 317 BC he returned with an army of mercenaries under a solemn oath to observe the democratic constitution which was then set up.

Each signed the league's constitution, and the National League was officially born.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

A petition proposing a radical change in the German constitution and expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was widely circulated.

As another consequence of the disturbances, a new constitution was accepted in 1831 which came into effect on 4 September of that year.

The constitution was more conservative than other constitutions existing at this time in the German Union.

A new constitution was adopted in 2007 ( the Virgin Islands Constitution Order, 2007 ) and came into force when the Legislative Council was dissolved for the 2007 general election.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the 1961 constitution established a consultative legislative council.

* Constitution of 1891 – the republic was proclaimed in 1889, but a new constitution was not promulgated until 1891.

They now gathered the various constitutional laws they had passed into a single constitution, showed remarkable strength in choosing not to use this as an occasion for major revisions, and submitted it to the recently restored Louis XVI, who accepted it, writing " I engage to maintain it at home, to defend it from all attacks from abroad, and to cause its execution by all the means it places at my disposal ".

However, in 1980 North Korea had submitted a " one nation, two system " reunification proposal which was met with a suggestion from the South to meet and prepare a unification constitution and government through a referendum.

Under Article 73 the new constitution was formally submitted to the Imperial Diet by the Emperor, through an imperial rescript issued on 20 June.

The draft constitution was submitted and deliberated upon as the Bill for Revision of the Imperial Constitution.

* Propose changes to the constitution ( must be initiated in the Dáil ), which must then be submitted to a referendum.

On the other hand, an amendment to the constitution of the US state of Massachusetts must first be endorsed by a special majority in the legislature during two consecutive terms, and is then submitted to a referendum.

The concept did not wither and, on 5 January 1888, British prime minister Lord Salisbury submitted to the Queen a draft constitution for an Order of Merit in Science and Art, consisting of one grade split into two branches of knighthood: the Order of Scientific Merit for Knights of Merit in Science, with the post-nominal letters KMS and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters KMA.

Delegates were divided among ten committees to consider amendments to the draft constitution, which were submitted to a reconciliation council.

SNP has submitted 33 amendments and still does not include the option to support the constitution as well, under the condition that it's amendments-previously included in the Opposition's demands-are adopted.

The governor would be the creature of the assembly, elected by it and removable by it …. The governor could not take any important step without the advice and consent of the ' council of state ,' and he had no voice in the appointment or removal of of state members .” This constitution was not submitted to a vote of the people.

This bill would have bypassed any referendum on a constitution before being submitted to the U. S. Congress for ratification.

President Roosevelt objected to these clauses, and obtained their deletion before the constitution was submitted to Congress.

In December 1942, the " Freiburg Circle " who were continuing their work helping Goerdeler develop a constitution submitted the " Great Memorandum " to Goerdeler for the proposed post-Nazi German government, which also included " Proposals for a Solution of the Jewish Question in Germany ".

In order to solidify his moderate stance of leadership, in July 1963 Adoula removed his cabinet ministers with the most extreme views, attempting to create a group with a balance of Katanga and Lumumbist members, and a few months later submitted a new federal constitution to the parliament.

It was submitted to a referendum on the same day as the Fifth Amendment, which removed from the constitution reference to the " special position " of the Catholic Church and recognition of certain other named denominations.

Then Jamaat launched campaign for the restoration of Islamic articles in the constitution of 1962 and submitted 9 miles long signatory paper for basic rights.

A " People's Party ", therefore, was formed, which held a convention, adopted a constitution, and submitted it to a vote of the people.

Soon the other eight premiers came to an agreement, and submitted their own plan for a constitution, without a Charter of Rights and with an " opt out " clause for federal programs with equivalent funding given to the province ( s ).

Showing remarkable fortitude in not using this occasion as an opportunity for major revisions, the Assembly submitted the constitution to the recently restored Louis XVI, who accepted it, writing " I engage to maintain it at home, to defend it from all attacks from abroad ; and to cause its execution by all the means it places at my disposal.

The Federal Constitutional Court issued a decision a year later maintaining its earlier decision that the constitution protected the fetus from the moment of conception, but stated that it is within the discretion of parliament not to punish abortion in the first trimester, providing that the woman had submitted to state-regulated counseling designed to discourage termination and protect unborn life.

In September the episcopate submitted a proposal for the amendment of the constitution, but Congress rejected it on 22 September 1926.

It was revolution against the spirit of the constitution, when Gracchus submitted the domain question to the people ; and revolution also against ... the tribunician veto.

The original Tennessee state constitution was not submitted to the voters for approval, but rather was approved by Congress in conjunction with the resolution admitting Tennessee as a state.

In 1895 a proposal was accepted by the premiers of the Australian colonies to establish a new Convention by popular vote, with the resulting draft of the constitution being submitted to the electors of each colony in a referendum.