To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

" The Constitution is more than a written text.

* Full text of the Constitution

However, because of the Reid v. Covert decision, the U. S. adds a reservation to the text of every treaty that says, in effect, that the U. S. intends to abide by the treaty, but if the treaty is found to be in violation of the Constitution, then the U. S. legally can't abide by the treaty since the U. S. signature would be ultra vires.

* Esdaile, Charles J. Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808 – 1939 ( 2000 ) excerpt and text search

However, it is important to note that nothing in the text of the Constitution explicitly authorized the power of judicial review, despite persistent fears voiced by Anti-federalists over the power of the new Federal court system.

The text of the Constitution of Ireland, as originally enacted in 1937, made reference in its controversial Articles 2 and 3 to two geopolitical entities: a thirty-two county ' national territory ' ( i. e., the island of Ireland ), and a twenty-six county ' state ' formerly known as the Irish Free State.

While the Constitution always granted Congress the authority to meet on a different day without the need to pass an amendment, § 2 of the Twentieth Amendment " tidied up " the constitutional text by paralleling the original provision requiring that the Congress meet at least once a year in December, and changing it to January 3 ( unless changed by law ).

The limitation originally took the form of a clause in the text of the constitutional amendment itself, such as " This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

The final text of the Ninth Amendment, like Madison's draft, speaks of other rights than those enumerated in the Constitution.

The present valid Constitution of Ukraine is therefore the 1996 text.

A European Constitution bill is rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, but a similar text, the Treaty of Lisbon, is drafted in 2007 and finally adopted by the 27 members countries.

* Full text of the Constitution of Vermont

* The Vermont State Archives text of the Vermont Republic Constitution, 1777

* The Vermont State Archives text of the 1786 Constitution

* The Vermont State Archives text of the 1793 Constitution

In a letter he wrote in 1821, he stated " the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself ; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it recd.

* Heindel, Max ( 1909 ) The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Christian Occult Science, An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development Independent Book Company, Chicago, OCLC 7466633 ; full text of updated version entitled ' The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity, An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development from The Rosicrucian Fellowship

The text of the new Constitution was put to a nationwide referendum in August 1992 and approved by a wide margin, despite efforts by federalists to disrupt balloting in several coastal areas.

This is sometimes referred to as " bumping " and appears to contradict the text of the Constitution, which says ( in Article II, section 1, Clause 6 ): The Continuity of Government Commission argued that as well as going against the language of the Constitution, bumping violates the doctrine of separation of powers by undermining the independence of the executive from the Congress:

Even if a similar bill is enacted, its practical effect may not be clear: proponents of the bill have argued that it is a valid exercise of Congress's power to regulate the jurisdiction of the federal courts under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, but opponents question whether Congress has the authority to prevent the Supreme Court from hearing claims based on the Bill of Rights ( since amendments postdate the original text of the Constitution and may thus implicitly limit the scope of Article III, Section 2 ).

Sometimes ( in mixed-directions text ) this leads to display errors, caused by the BiDi-algorithm that runs through the text and identifies LTR and RTL strong characters and assigns a direction to weak characters, according to the algorithm's rules.

* The textual approach, a restrictive interpretation, which bases itself on the " ordinary meaning " of the text ; that approach assigns considerable weight to the actual text.

Unicode currently allows for 1, 114, 112 code values, and assigns codes covering nearly all modern text writing systems, as well as many historical ones and for many non-linguistic characters such as printer's dingbats, mathematical symbols, etc.

The front-end then assigns phonetic transcriptions to each word, and divides and marks the text into prosodic units, like phrases, clauses, and sentences.

Manusmriti, an ancient Hindu legal text, assigns cattle rearing as an occupation of Vaisya ; however there are references in available literature that Kshatriyas also owned and reared the cattle and cattle-wealth was the mainstay of their households.

: At this time, a volume of the Bible was found in a remote church of the mountains, containing the Old and the New Testaments, engrossed on strong vellum in large folio, having three columns in the page, written with beautiful accuracy, in the Estrangelo Syriac ( the character in which the oldest Syrian manuscripts are written ), and illuminated ; that the Syrian church assigns to this manuscript a high antiquity ; and that it has been handed down to the present time under circumstances so peculiarly favourable to accurate preservation, as may justly entitle it to respect, in the collation of doubtful readings in the sacred text.

On May 21, 2012, after almost 3 years of no communication, it was revealed that Liam and Noel had been in " friendly text contact " after Manchester City won the Barclays Premier League.

On May 21, 2012, after almost 3 years of no communication, it was revealed that Liam and Noel had been in " friendly text contact " after Manchester City won the Barclays Premier League.

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from: 01 / 07 / 1991 till: 01 / 07 / 2012 color: bl1 shift :( 0, 13 ) text: " Russian Premier League "

from: 01 / 07 / 1998 till: 01 / 07 / 2010 color: bl1 shift :( 0, 13 ) text: " Russian Premier League "

from: 01 / 07 / 2000 till: 01 / 07 / 2011 color: bl1 shift :( 0, 13 ) text: " Premier League "

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from: 01 / 07 / 1991 till: 01 / 07 / 1996 color: bl1 shift :( 0, 13 ) text :" Premier League "

from: 01 / 07 / 1998 till: 01 / 07 / 2011 color: bl1 shift :( 0, 13 ) text :" Premier League "

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from: 01 / 07 / 1991 till: 01 / 07 / 2008 color: bl1 shift :( 0, 13 ) text: " Premier League "

* The Kidnapped Prime Minister: July 1924 – Volume 39, Number 3 ( under the title The Kidnapped Premier – although the title " Prime Minister " was used within the text of the story )

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