News broke recently that some Democratic legislators in Massachusetts are getting cold feet about changing the succession law.
With imperial babies so rare, even before today's news could be known, the battle lines had begun to form around the question of changing the succession laws.
Francisco Rodríguez, an economist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, speculated that Mr. Chávez might propose changing the succession rules so that the vice president, who is selected by the president, serves out the remainder of a vacated presidency.
I saw a space, or rather an ever-changing succession of spaces, but these were independent of any actual material reality – they existed only in my head.
Contrary to popular discourse by and about Hanson as a "non-politician", I felt that she was the most constructed celebrity politician I'd ever seen, with a rapidly-changing succession of handlers pushing an American-style log cabin story to present her as an "ordinary Australian".
Mao enjoyed the companionship of an ever-changing succession of enthusiastic young women whom he met either on weekly dances in Zhongnanhai or on his journeys by train.
The proposals the mayor would like the commission to entertain include making city elections nonpartisan and changing the rules of succession when a mayor unexpectedly leaves office.
A campaign group was set up called The Hares, after the Tory peer Lord Trefgarne said that changing the rules on succession to the crown would "set the hare running" on whether all inherited titles should be gender-neutral.
No males have been born into the imperial line for the last 37 years, and Aiko's birth has spurred debate about changing the male-only succession law, which was established in 1948 under the United States' occupation of Japan.
