Sentence examples for adopt a constitution from inspiring English sources

The state was forced to adopt a constitution shortly after the rebellion.

(In 1791, Vermont had been the first state to adopt a constitution prohibiting slavery).

With two-thirds majorities needed to draft and adopt a constitution, some measure of reconciliation was necessary to avoid deadlock.

In the October Diploma of 1860 and the February Patent of 1861, Francis Joseph declared the end of neoabsolutism and his readiness to adopt a constitution.

The intensity of the clash led to a consensus that the effort to adopt a constitution might have to be put off indefinitely.

The United States had pushed for Iraq to adopt a constitution and then hold national elections before it would be granted self-rule.

In 1884 the organization adopted a constitution.

It also adopted a constitution, elected a lay-clerical Supreme Council, and unanimously elected Hodur bishop.

Six years later the new country adopted a Constitution that implicitly recognized civilian control.

In 1996, President Nelson Mandela's multiracial government adopted a constitution that emphasized civil and political rights.

Buenos Aires refused to participate, but the convention adopted a constitution for the whole country that went into effect on May 25 , 1853