The phrase "authoritarian constitution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a constitution that establishes or supports an authoritarian regime or governance structure.
Example: "The new government implemented an authoritarian constitution that limited civil liberties and concentrated power in the hands of a few."
Alternatives: "oppressive constitution" or "dictatorial constitution".
This will produce "amendments" to the now-suspended authoritarian constitution.
Ankara amended a third of the country's authoritarian Constitution.
Her father came to power in a coup in 1961, then in 1972 dissolved the National Assembly and introduced a newly authoritarian constitution.
In a 1996 referendum that international observers judged fraudulent, he forced through an authoritarian Constitution and packed Belarus's Parliament with loyal supporters.
And he should start serious bipartisan talks with the opposition and other interested parties on revising and updating Turkey's present authoritarian constitution, which was largely written after the army coup of 1980.Mr Erdogan's government should also turn more of its attention to the economy.
And yet what has been going on in Budapest – the dismantling of the rule of law, the systematic weakening of oppositional media, the creation of a new nationalist and in many ways authoritarian constitution – arguably puts European integration much more in doubt than any problems with the euro.
The constitution imposed by Napoleon was comparable to his other authoritarian constitutions but took into account Polish traditions and customs.
Precisely because holdover authoritarian constitutions are so hard to change, things often get ugly when democratically elected leaders try to get rid of elite biases.
Papadopoulos was unable to build any degree of popular support and showed himself markedly reluctant to countenance elections, even within the parameters of his authoritarian 1968 constitution.
Kristen Stilt, Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Egyptian Constitution of 1971, in Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes 111 (Tom Ginsburg & Alberto Simpser eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2014).
The authoritarian Pinochet-era constitution has been revised and the judicial system overhauled.
