When armies throughout Spain pronounced themselves in sympathy with the revolters, led by Rafael del Riego, Ferdinand relented and was forced to accept the liberal Constitution of 1812.

When the 1814 Constitution was introduced, the country was reorganised as provinces and regions ( landschappen ).

When the U. S. Constitution was sent to the states for ratification after being signed on September 17, 1787, the Anti-Federalists argued that a Bill of Rights should be added.

The United States Constitution does not explicitly establish the office of Chief Justice, but presupposes its existence with a single reference in Article I, Section 3, Clause 6: " When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.

When Ferdinand's rule was restored, these juntas were cautious of abandoning their autonomy, and an alliance between local elites, merchant interests, nationalists, and liberals opposed to the abrogation of the Constitution of 1812 rose up against the Spanish in the New World.

When the Montagnards gained control of the Convention, they wrote their own, the French Constitution of 1793.

When Canada patriated its constitution with the passage of the Canada Act of 1982, the existing British North America Acts were either repealed, or " modernized " and retitled as " Constitution Acts " in Canada.

When the Articles of Confederation were superseded by the Constitution of the United States, the Confederation Congress was superseded by the United States Congress.

When English and American law gradually diverged, due process was not upheld in England, but did become incorporated in the Constitution of the United States.

When Washington was inaugurated as the first president under the Constitution, he appointed Knox to continue serving.

When he arrived in New York to join General Washington and the main part of the Continental Army, Washington chose to show his appreciation of General Lee ( who was a very popular general officer among not only the army, but Congress ) by changing the name of Fort Constitution, which was located on the New Jersey side of the Hudson opposite Fort Washington, to Fort Lee.

When searching Licio Gelli's villa, the police found a document called the " Plan for Democratic Rebirth ", which called for a consolidation of the media, suppression of trade unions, and the rewriting of the Italian Constitution.

When it was first released, the film premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington, D. C., on October 17, 1939, sponsored by the National Press Club, an event to which 4, 000 guests were invited, including 45 senators.

When these became unworkable, a new Constitution was written in 1789, and it became the basis for the United States federal government, with war hero George Washington as the country's first president.

When co-host Jim Norton, who defended these actions by Border Patrol, said he believed in the Constitution, too, Ventura said, " No, you don't, ' cause you're saying this is OK ."

When a proposed law passed by both Houses of the Parliament is presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare, according to his discretion, but subject to this Constitution, that he assents in the Queen's name, or that he withholds assent, or that he reserves the law for the Queen's pleasure.

She said of the event, " When I finally walked onto the stage of Constitution Hall, I felt no different than I had in other halls.

When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan ( the Meiji Constitution ) provided for the Imperial Diet ( Teikoku Gikai ), composed of a popularly elected House of Representatives with a very limited franchise of male citizens who were over twenty-five years of age and paid fifteen yen in national taxes, about one percent of the population, and the House of Peers, composed of nobility and imperial appointees ; and a cabinet responsible to the emperor and independent of the legislature.

When the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution took effect in 1920, banning the sale, manufacturing and transportation of alcoholic beverages for public consumption, until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1933, some enterprising individuals in Freestone followed a national trend and began bootlegging for profit.

When it came time to draft the United States Constitution, differing views on eminent domain were voiced.

The U. S. Supreme Court held that " lthough the Fourth Amendment ordinarily requires the degree of probability embodied in the term ' probable cause ,' a lesser degree satisfies the Constitution when the balance of governmental and private interests makes such a standard reasonable ... When an officer has reasonable suspicion that a probationer subject to a search condition is engaged in criminal activity, there is enough likelihood that criminal conduct is occurring that an intrusion on the probationer's significantly diminished privacy interests is reasonable.

When the result of the election became clear Lange asked Muldoon to devalue the dollar, which he refused to do, resulting in a constitutional crisis and precipitating some of the changes in the Constitution Act 1986.

When Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, it had adopted a constitution which allowed men of all races to vote, in compliance with the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

When Valdemar returned to Denmark, he was convinced into strengthening the Danevirke fortifications at the German border, with the support of Absalon.

When Denmark refused, Austria and Prussia invaded, commencing the Second war of Schleswig and Denmark was forced to cede both duchies.

When the Nazis occupied Denmark during World War II, Borge was playing a concert in Sweden, and managed to escape to Finland.

When adopting the gold standard, many European nations changed the name of their currency from Daler ( Sweden and Denmark ) or Gulden ( Austria-Hungary ) to Crown, since the former names were traditionally associated with silver coins and the latter with gold coins.

When Denmark abolished slavery in 1848, many plantation owners wanted full reimbursement, on the grounds that their assets were damaged by the loss of the slaves, and by the fact that they would have to pay for labor in the future.

When the National Liberals came to power in Denmark, in 1848, it provoked an uprising of ethnic Germans who supported Schleswig's ties with Holstein.

When Alexandra's father inherited the throne of Denmark in November 1863, the German Confederation took the opportunity to invade and annex Schleswig-Holstein.

When peace was concluded with Denmark, the anti-Swedish coalition had already fallen apart, and Denmark was not in a military position to negotiate a return of her former eastern provinces across the sound.

When Sweden finally was at peace with Hanover, Great Britain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark – Norway, she hoped that the anti-Russian sentiments of the Vienna parties and France would culminate in an alliance which would restore to her her Russian-occupied eastern provinces.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

When asked for his thoughts on the Allied battle plan, Hitler had said, " I think that diversionary actions will take place in a number of places-against Norway, Denmark, the southern part of western France, and the French Mediterranean coast ".

When a massive slave revolt planned by Denmark Vesey, a free black, was discovered in 1822, such hysteria ensued amidst white Charlestonians and Carolinians that the activities of free blacks and slaves were severely restricted.

When the two kingdoms of Denmark and Norway were separated by the Treaty of Kiel in 1814 following the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark kept Iceland as a dependency.

When Carl accepted the offer that same evening ( after the approval of his grandfather Christian IX of Denmark ), he immediately endeared himself to his adopted country by taking the Old Norse name of Haakon, a name used by previous Kings of Norway.

When his grandfather Valdemar IV of Denmark died, Olaf was just five years old.

When he visited Denmark for a peace congress in October 2002 ( the World Chechen Congress event in Copenhagen ), the Russians demanded his arrest and extradition ; Zakayev was held for over a month, but was released after Danish authorities stated they were not convinced that sufficient evidence had been provided.

* When writing Hamlet, Shakespeare assumed ( perhaps relying on his sources ) that the royal house of Denmark employed a Swiss Guard: In Act V, Scene v ( line 98 ) he has King Claudius exclaim " Where are my Switzers?

When Ansgar the Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, set out on the " Mission to bring Christianity to the North ", he made a request in 860, to the King of Denmark, that the first Scandinavian church be built in Ribe.

When he lived in Denmark, he became friends with the family of the future Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and subsequently became Lars's godfather.

When the Danish nobility opposed his rule and refused to ratify his choice of Bogislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania as the next King of Denmark, he left Denmark and settled at his castle Visborg in Gotland, apparently a kind of a “ royal strike ” which led to his deposition by the National Councils of Denmark and Sweden in 1439.