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 assigns to the Premier certain powers, such as the power to assign roles ( s. 25 ) to Parliamentary Secretaries, and to appoint Ministers as acting Ministers ( s. 45 ) for a period of 14 days.

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 ).

Lugh's spear ( sleg ), according to the text of The Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was an insuperable spear, taken to Ireland from Gorias ( or Findias ).

** " All Kinds of Everything ", sung by Dana ( music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith ), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 for Ireland.

* Mass Readings ( text in official Lectionary for Ireland, Australia, Britain, New Zealand etc.

The English text reads " This Association has been founded solely to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland.

: Australia, Botswana, British West Indies, Brunei, Canada ( English-speaking ), Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea ( both North and South ), Lebanon, Luxembourg ( uses both marks officially ), Macau ( in Chinese and English text ), Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland ( when the amount is in Swiss francs ), Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States ( including insular areas ), Zimbabwe.

An earlier text, Baile Chuinn Cétchathaigh ( The Ecstatic Vision of Conn of the Hundred Battles ") gives a poetic list of kings, many of which are recognisable from the traditional List of High Kings of Ireland, but without narrative context.

The text goes on to relate that as the Milesians were journeying through Ireland, Fótla met them ‘ with her swift fairy hosts around her ’ on Naini Mountain, also called the mountain of Ebliu.

at: 1708 shift :( 25 ,- 10 ) text: Went to Ireland

The North / South Co-operation ( Implementation Bodies ) Northern Ireland Order 1999, which gave effect to the implementation bodies incorporated the text of the agreement in its Schedule 1.

Despite the name, the Annales Cambriae record not only events in Wales, but also events in Ireland, Cornwall, England, Scotland and sometimes further afield, though the focus of the events recorded especially in the later two thirds of the text is Wales.

Thomas Owen Clancy has argued that the Lebor Bretnach, the so-called " Irish Nennius ," was written in Scotland, and probably at the monastery in Abernethy, but this text survives only from manuscripts preserved in Ireland.

Richard Beacon in Solon His Follie ( 1594 ), directed towards English colonisation in Ireland, used text derived from the Six livres, as well as much theory from Machiavelli ; he also argued against Bodin the proposition that France was a mixed monarchy.

* Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals — text of the British government white paper which led to the agreement

The text in traditional Irish orthography reads Rialtas Sealadach na hÉireann 1922 and translates as Provisional Government of Ireland 1922

The issue of greater political emancipation was considered in 1800 at the time of the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland: it was not included in the text of the Act because this would have led to greater Irish Protestant opposition to the Union.

In 2006 a text and online service, in association with Zamano, was established to increase the availability of the listening service for children in Ireland.

In a surprising move ( as the ESV has had no Catholic input ), the International Committee for the Preparation of an English-language Lectionary ( ICPEL ), which determines the form of the English-language Roman Catholic lectionary used in England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Australia, insofar as it conforms to Vatican directives such as Liturgiam authenticam, selected the ESV for use as the base text in preparing a new Lectionary for the English-speaking Catholics in only those countries in late 2011, along with the Revised Grail Psalter.

* Full text of the Constitution of Ireland ( Accurate up to and including the Twenty-ninth Amendment from Department of the Taoiseach )

* Full text of the Constitution of Ireland ( Accurate up to and including the Twenty-ninth Amendment from Department of the Taoiseach )

* Full text of the Constitution of Ireland ( Accurate up to and including the Twenty-ninth Amendment from Department of the Taoiseach )

* Full text of the Constitution of Ireland ( Accurate up to and including the Twenty-ninth Amendment from Department of the Taoiseach )

* Full text of the Constitution of Ireland ( Accurate up to and including the Twenty-ninth Amendment from Department of the Taoiseach )

* Full text of the Constitution of Ireland ( Accurate up to and including the Twenty-ninth Amendment from Department of the Taoiseach )