" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

They were enunciated in the preamble to the " Agreement ( with exchange of notes ) on trade and intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India ", which was signed at Peking on 29 April 1954.

The United States filed a formal protest because the preamble of the mandates indicated to the League that they had been approved by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, when, in fact, that was not the case.

According to Nithard's version, both kings first made the same preamble speech, which was a detailed complaint against Lothair.

The preamble was also written in Latin, as were sections to report the ceremonies.

Linguistic amendments were also included ; the line in the preamble emphasising that authors possessed books as they would any other piece of property was dropped, and the bill moved from something designed " for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof " to a bill " for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies ".

), De Tallagio non Concedendo, though it is printed among the statutes of the realm, and was cited as a statute in the preamble to the Petition of Right in 1628, and by the judges in John Hampden's case in 1637, is probably an imperfect and unauthoritative abstract of the Confirmatio Cartarum.

As was the custom, Congress appointed a committee to draft a preamble to explain the purpose of the resolution.

John Adams wrote the preamble, which stated that because King George had rejected reconciliation and was hiring foreign mercenaries to use against the colonies, " it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed ".

Adams's preamble was meant to encourage the overthrow of the governments of Pennsylvania and Maryland, which were still under proprietary governance.

On May 20, the Maryland Convention rejected Adams's preamble, instructing its delegates to remain against independence, but Samuel Chase went to Maryland and, thanks to local resolutions in favor of independence, was able to get the Maryland Convention to change its mind on June 28.

The structure was influenced by the Code Napoleon, including a preamble and introductory general principles.

Another student influenced by Whitehead was Charles Malik, the drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights's preamble, and later president of the UN General Assembly.

According to its preamble, the act was designed to " take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament.

His letter of 9 July 1606 to congratulate James I on his accession to the throne was three years late and seemed to English eyes merely a preamble to what followed, and his reference to the Gunpowder Plot, made against the life of the monarch and all the members of Parliament the previous November, was unfortunate for the papal cause, for papal agents were considered by the English to have been involved ( the effigy of Pope Paul V is still burnt every year during the Lewes Bonfire

However, in spite of the fact that the Charter was a condition of the Restoration, the preamble declared it to be a ' concession and grant ', given ' by the free exercise of our royal authority '.

The Convention also made recommendations about a preamble to the Constitution, and a proposed preamble was also put to referendum.

The preamble referendum question was also defeated, with a Yes vote of only 39 per cent.

" The revised treaty also includes in it the preamble " Reaffirming their respect for each other's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity ", an element that was absent in the earlier version.

In its preamble, it states that it was created by the Ticinese people ( popolo ) " in order to guaranty peaceful life together with respect for the dignity of man, fundamental liberties and social justice (...) faithful to its historic task to interpret Italian culture within the Helvetic Confederation ".

The stated intention of the Papists Act of 1778 was, as its preamble notes, to mitigate some of the official discrimination against Roman Catholics in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

In either case, the colonial presence is clear in Popol Vuh's preamble: " This we shall write now under the Law of God and Christianity ; we shall bring it to light because now the Popol Vuh, as it is called, cannot be seen any more, in which was clearly seen the coming from the other side of the sea and the narration of our obscurity, and our life was clearly seen.

The Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 provide a second potential preamble if the House of Lords is excluded from the process.

The purpose of the act, according to its preamble, is: " To establish a permanent advisory body known as the South African Geographical Names Council to advise the Minister responsible for Arts and Culture on the transformation and standardisation of geographical names in South Africa for official purposes ; to determine its objects, functions and methods of work ; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

However, the line " the belief in God is essential to our welfare " in the preamble was untouched and remains so to this day.

In the preamble to the open-meeting statutes, collectively known as the Brown Act, the Legislature declares that `` the public commissions, boards and councils and other public agencies in this state exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business.

The preamble to thr 2006 Constitution repeated from the 1969 Constitution states that " Her Majesty's Government will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes.

The Constitution has five sections which are the preamble, general principles, fundamental rights and duties of citizens, structure of the state ( which includes such state organs as the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Local People's Congress and Local People's Governments and the People's Courts and the People's Procuratorates ), the national flag and the emblems of the state.

In the Provincial Judges Reference, the Court fell short of using the preamble to state new constitutional obligations or limitations.

The 1989 Language Law that proclaimed it the state language of Moldova, speaks in the preamble of a " Moldovan-Romanian linguistic identity ".

In the 1240s, Genghis's descendant Güyük Khan wrote a letter to Pope Innocent IV which used the preamble, " Dalai ( great / oceanic ) Khagan of the great Mongol state ( ulus )".

The preamble stated that " the aims of the dictatorship of the proletariat having been fulfilled, the Soviet state has become the state of the whole people.

The state of Missouri passed a law which, in its preamble, stated that " the life of each human being begins at conception " and " unborn children have protectable interests in life, health, and well-being.

He wrote the preamble to the state constitution — an honor that later influenced his fight against the radical Missouri Constitution of 1865.

Its preamble described the DRV as a " people's democratic state led by the working class ," and the document provided for a nominal separation of powers among legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

* The preamble stated that the communal property ( state, kolkhoz, or cooperative property ) is fundamental for the Soviet social order, therefore people who try to appropriate it must be treated as enemies of the people.

Proponents of an Islamic state argued unsuccessfully in 1945 and throughout the parliamentary democracy period of the 1950s for the inclusion of language ( the " Jakarta Charter ") in the Constitution's preamble making it obligatory for Muslims to follow Shari ' a.

The main item on the agenda was the signature, by heads of state and plenipotentiary representatives of 12 South American nations, of the Cuzco Declaration, a two-page document containing a preamble to the deed of foundation of the South American Community of Nations ( or " South American Union "), uniting the region's two existing free-trade organisations – Mercosur and the Andean Community.

Modern India came into existence in 1947 as a secular nation and the Indian constitution's preamble states that India is a secular state.

Their key changes to the committee ’ s draft was an inclusion of the phrase “ Invoking the favor of Almighty God ” into the preamble, the addition of an executive item veto, a removal of a congressional restriction of fifteen percent on import tariffs, and a combining of the circuit and district court systems into one district system where each state comprised one district.

In the preamble to the bill, the Peruvian government stressed that the choice was made to ensure that key pillars of democracy were safeguarded: " The basic principles which inspire the Bill are linked to the basic guarantees of a state of law.

" Kemalist ideology defines the " Turkish Nation " as a nation of Turkish People who always love and seek to exalt their family, country and nation, who know their duties and responsibilities towards the democratic, secular and social state governed by the rule of law, founded on human rights, and on the tenets laid down in the preamble to the constitution of the Republic of Turkey.