Sentence examples for a constitution drawn from inspiring English sources
A Constitution drawn up at Lancaster House in London contained compromises guaranteeing that whites would have 20 of the 100 seats in Parliament.
Three months before that, Mr Bainimarama had ditched a constitution drawn up by his own appointed commission, asking his attorney-general to come up with a new one more to his liking.
A constitution drawn up in 2008 enshrines a strong role for the armed forces, which will control a quarter of the seats in national and local parliaments and run the security agencies.
The delegates agreed to carry into the talks their demand for a constitution drawn up by a "constituent assembly" elected in a national one-person, one-vote election.
The government strongly opposes a constituent assembly, favoring instead a constitution drawn up by the consensus of black and white leaders and ratified by a referendum.
Imagine what Europeans might have created: a constitution drawing on centuries of political experience and informed by tragic wisdom borne of millenniums of wars; a document influenced by European philosophers like Hobbes and Rousseau, Hume and Kant, Machiavelli and Montesquieu, who addressed fundamental questions about government and human nature.
The Constituent Assembly then considered a draft constitution drawn up by a constitutional committee.
Although it is exceedingly unlikely to have even surfaced as an issue in the "coalition negotiations", the Liberal Democrats' manifesto promises a referendum to introduce a written constitution drawn up by a citizens' convention.
A draft of a new constitution drawn up by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) in 2012 reflects much of Nippon Kaigi's agenda.
Hugo Chavez has a six-year presidential term, a new Constitution drawn up to his specifications and a sweeping majority in the National Assembly.
In what is clearly a reference to the dispute, a new constitution drawn up at his insistence states that the only borders Venezuela recognizes as valid are those established by "treaties and arbitrators' rulings not flawed by nullity".
