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 ).

A constitutional convention produced an electoral law and draft constitution.

It declared that during a four-year transition period, and sooner if possible, it would draft and ratify a constitution, prepare a law on political parties, prepare a press law, and carry out elections for a constitutional government.

It had been expected by the constitutional convention, which prepared the draft constitution, and by Australia, the outgoing metropolitan power, that Papua New Guinea would choose not to retain its link with the Commonwealth realms monarchy.

The Forum, tightly controlled by the government, decided elections should be held in about 3 years, elected a transition advisory legislature, and announced that a constitutional convention will finalize a draft constitution.

On June 28, 1992, Estonian voters approved the constitutional assembly's draft constitution and implementation act, which established a parliamentary government with a president as chief of state and with a government headed by a prime minister.

Troops guarding the proceedings clashed with pro-Ratsiraka " federalists " who tried to disrupt the forum in protest of draft constitutional provisions preventing the incumbent president from running again.

Yet in late 1945 and 1946, there was much public discussion on constitutional reform, and the MacArthur draft was apparently greatly influenced by the ideas of certain Japanese liberals.

The emperor declared that " constitutional government shall be established in gradual stages " as he ordered the Council of Elders to draft a constitution.

Though he had no constitutional authority to do so, Long continued to draft and press bills through the Louisiana State Legislature, which remained in the hands of his allies.

The British Government was adamant in its opposition to the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council as incorporated in the draft constitution — eventually Barton agreed that constitutional ( inter se ) matters would be finalised in the High Court, but other matters could be appealed to the Privy Council.

Eidsvoll was the site where the constitutional assembly met to draft and sign the Constitution of Norway on 17 May 1814.

* Hans Jacob Stabel, priest and member of the constitutional assembly to draft and sign the Norwegian Constitution at Eidsvoll on 17 May 1814.

A group including some Girondists prepared a draft constitution, known as the Girondin constitutional project, which was presented to the National Convention in early 1793.

France, like the rest of Europe, has never again used an elected constitutional convention to draft its constitutions, instead relying on the executive or legislative branches to draft successive constitutions before usually ( but not always ) submitting them to the electorate for approval in referendums.

Perhaps the most famous line in Adams's draft declaration of rights was this: " All men are born equally free and independent ...." This was slightly revised before being adopted by the constitutional convention: " All men are born free and equal ...."

The President ’ fundamental positions on domestic policy issues are expressed in his written decisions regarding draft federal constitutional laws and draft federal laws, as well as his letters explaining the reasons for rejecting draft federal laws.

On 1 June 1958, Charles de Gaulle was appointed head of the government ; on 3 June 1958, a constitutional law empowered the new government to draft a new Constitution of France, and another law granted Charles de Gaulle and his cabinet the power to rule by decree for up to 6 months, except on certain matters related to the basic rights of citizens ( criminal law, etc .).

In 1776, he undertook negotiations with the northwestern Indians on behalf of his Colony and that year he acted as vice president of the State constitutional convention, so then that led to helping draft a declaration of rights.

In 1787, King was sent to the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia where he worked closely with Alexander Hamilton on the Committee of Style and Arrangement to prepare the final draft.

Since 1776 nearly 150 state constitutional conventions have met to draft or revise state constitutions.

On 10 March 1848, the Bundestag of the German Confederation appointed a " Committee of Seventeen " ( Siebzehnerausschuss ) to prepare a draft constitution ; on 20 March, the Bundestag urged the states of the confederation to call elections for a constitutional assembly.

Although an unsuccessful revolt against the czarist government in favor of a constitutional government, both Engels and Marx anticipated a bourgeois revolution in Russia would occur which would bring about a bourgeois stage in Russian development to precede a communist stage.

Recent research also brought to light that, especially in the 18th century, the rulings of the court anticipated in many ways the constitutional establishment of civil liberties in Germany.

Local affiliates were established in key states to block an anticipated constitutional amendment to counter the guarantees of the Roe v. Wade decision.

The constitutional attributions of the president are defined in Title II of the Constitution of France.

Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally revived the ban on discrimination in public accommodations that was in the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but under the Commerce Clause of Article I instead of the 14th Amendment ; the Court held it to be constitutional in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States,.

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.

In 1934 the Indian Reorganization Act, codified as Title 25, Section 476 of the U. S. Code, allowed Indian nations to select from a catalogue of constitutional documents that enumerated powers for tribes and for tribal councils.

This phrase has become the label of choice for this constitutional clause, and it was universally adopted by the courts, and it received Congress's imprimatur in Title 50 of the United States Code, section 1541 ( b ) ( 1994 ), in the purpose and policy of the War Powers Resolution.

As Articles 83-85 under Title III of the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution enshrine free and quality healthcare as a human right guaranteed to all Venezuelan citizens, the Hugo Chávez administration has sought to fulfill its constitutional obligations via the Barrio Adentro program.

( The Washington v. Davis test for disparate impact is used in constitutional equal protection clause cases while Title VII's prohibition on disparate impact is a statutory mandate.

Another article of fundamental importance here is article 136, under Title VI, " Constitutional Guarantees-Section I-The Constitutional Court ", reading as follows: " When the Court declares the constitutional illegitimacy of a law or enactment having the force of law, the law ceases to have effect from the day following the publication of the decision.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by a Reichstag in Nuremberg headed by Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, an important aspect of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.

Emperor Charles IV in 1354 and 1356 held diets in Metz, at the latter of which was promulgated the Golden Bull decree of 1356, fixing important constitutional aspects of the Holy Roman Empire.

Kings George I, II, and III had reigned as " King of Ireland "; after a constitutional change Georges III & IV had reigned as " King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

As described above ( with factual citations ), Arias himself was initially prohibited by Costa Rica's constitutional court from another term, due to constitutional term limits, but this was reversed using legal means, with the consent of the Costa Rican Sala IV court, unlike in Honduras.

During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 ( the 4th of Brumaire of the year IV under the French Republican Calendar adopted by the Convention ).

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, then leading an unpopular Tory government, hoped that they could mold Miguel into accepting the constitutional framework that Peter IV had devised, and used this visit to facilitate the transition.

A minority of Carlists supported Alfonso XIII, the exiled constitutional king of Spain, who was the senior male descendant of King Charles IV.

He also came forward in 1846 as a patriotic champion of the Schleswig-Holsteiners, and when, in 1847, King Frederick William IV promulgated the royal decree for summoning the so-called United Diet (), Gervinus hoped that this event would form the basis of the constitutional development of the largest German state.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by the Reichstag assembly in Nuremberg and Metz headed by the Luxembourg Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.