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.

The kingdom formally takes place according to the nation's constitution ( enacted in 1993 ) in a framework of a parliamentary, representative democracy.

In addition, while formally the Emperor's duties include appointing the Prime Minister to office, article 6 of the constitution requires him to appoint the candidate " as designated by the Diet " ( in practice, the candidate designated by the House of Representatives ), without any right to decline appointment.

It was formally approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the constitution of those states of West Germany that were initially included within the Federal Republic.

The new constitution was formally promulgated on 25 August.

The Western world generally views North Korea as a dictatorship ; the government has formally replaced all references to Marxism-Leninism in its constitution with the locally developed concept of Juche, or self-reliance.

The chairman of the Senate, under the constitution, is next in line to act as president should the office become vacant and until such time as a new president can be formally elected.

Shortly after the constitution took effect, the National Assembly formally legalized opposition parties.

Reaction to the announcement was widespread and largely positive from both religious and secular leaders outside the Catholic Church, and the council was formally summoned by the apostolic constitution Humanae Salutis on 25 December 1961.

Its constitution formally came into force on the first World Health Day on 7 April 1948, when it was ratified by the 26th member state.

The republic nominally continued to exist until 1945, as the constitution was never formally repealed.

Plantains are classified formally as Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana or hybrids Musa acuminata × balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution.

Andorra formally became a parliamentary democracy in May 1993 following approval of a new constitution by a popular referendum in March 1993.

He threw the party's left wing a symbolic bone with the renationalisation of the steel industry, but otherwise left Clause Four formally in the constitution but in practice on the shelf.

The Bolivian Constitution had a lifelong presidency and a hereditary senate, essentially recreating the British unwritten constitution, as it existed at the time, without formally establishing a monarchy.

The government of Canada — formally termed Her Majesty's Government — is defined by the constitution as the Queen acting on the advice of her Privy Council ; what is technically known as the Queen-in-Council, or sometimes the Governor-in-Council, referring to the governor general as the Queen's stand-in.

The term Verfassung ( constitution ) was not used, as the drafters regarded the Grundgesetz as temporary for the provisional West German state and that a constitution be formally enacted under the provision of Article 146 of the Basic Law for an ultimate reunified Germany.

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 first order of the new regime was Provisional Constitutional Act No. 1, signed by Minh, formally suspending the 1956 constitution created by Diệm.

He was also the last Swedish monarch to wield actual political power, and the political importance of the Monarchy of Sweden largely died with him, although its prerogatives were formally abolished only with the remaking of the Swedish constitution in 1974.

It is formally defined by the International Federation of Vexillological Associations ( FIAV ) constitution as " the creation and development of a body of knowledge about flags of all types, their forms and functions, and of scientific theories and principles based on that knowledge.

The dictatorship formally ended in 1931 when the king imposed a more unitarian constitution transferring executive power to the king, and changed the name of the country to Yugoslavia.

The constitution formally came into force on 29 December 1937.

Although the constitution was never formally abrogated, the King returned to reigning as an absolute monarch.

The constitution provides for a wide range of internationally recognized human rights.

In 1985, they adopted a constitution and held elections — an arrangement recognized only by Turkey.

Croatian constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but Croatian penal code prohibits and punishes anyone " who based on differences of race, religion, language, political or any other belief, wealth, birth, education, social status or other properties, gender, skin color, nationality or ethnicity violates basic human rights and freedoms recognized from international community ".

The Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the U. S. Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900 and recognized by the Puerto Rico constitution.

Under the constitution of 1950 the Roman Catholic Church was recognized as the official religion and church-run schools flourished.

In India's northeast, people speaking Sino-Tibetan group of languages such as Manipuri ( Meitei-lon ) recognized by the Indian constitution and Austro-Asiatic languages are commonly found.

As such, the province, which is also a territorial local entity recognized by the constitution, serves as the framework from which the autonomous communities were to be created.

Bahá ' ís are neither recognized nor protected by the Iranian constitution.

On May 1, 1979, in recognition of the evolving political status of the Marshall Islands, the United States recognized the constitution of the Marshall Islands and the establishment of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

In contrast to Weimar, political parties are explicitly mentioned in the constitution, i. e., officially recognized as important participants in politics.

This constitution recognized the existence of multiple national communities within the Spanish state, which proposed the division of the country into autonomous communities.

The constitution states that all legally recognized civil liberties can be denied to anyone who opposes the decision of the Cuban people to build socialism.

" The constitution of the 5, 000 is recognized as his political masterpiece ; his attempt to bring about a similar shift towards moderatism in 404 led directly to his death.

At one point, Kansas had two separate governments, each with its own constitution, although only one was federally recognized.

This resulted in a heated dispute in Parliament, since the constitution neither allowed nor recognized any titles of nobility to be conferred to Greek citizens, but the purely titular dignity was eventually awarded.

The constitution recognized the need for change and modernization after removal of the shogunate:

In 1849, the California constitution recognized Spanish language rights.

As a recognized legal scholar, Lassalle was asked to make public addresses dealing with the nature of the constitution and its relationship to the social forces within society.

However, he recognized that our inherited moral constitution does not currently permit us to behave in full compliance with the code of Absolute Ethics, and for this reason we need a code of ' Relative Ethics ' which takes into account the distorting factors of our present imperfections.

The constitution was recognized by 29 smaller states but not by Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Hanover and Saxony.

Morales and the MAS government subsequently adopted autonomy as a government policy and departmental autonomies were recognized in the new Bolivian constitution, approved in a referendum in January 2009.

Because the Constitution Act, 1867 provides that Canada's constitution is " similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom ", which is considered to be an unwritten constitution, the Supreme Court has also recognized the existence of constitutional conventions.

Lin's position as Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms and successor " was recognized when the Party constitution was formally revised to reflect Lin's future succession.

Complaints included that Kocharyan had not been an Armenian citizen for ten years as required by the constitution., even though it would have been impossible for him to be a 10 year citizen of a republic that was less than 7 years old ; however, the Armenian constitution recognized the Armenian SSR as it predecessor state.