Its constitution asserts that all people are 'pataphysicians whether they know it or not, but paid-up Collège members have included artists Asger Jorn, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, and the Marx Brothers.
This second option is somewhat contradictory: the 1992 constitution asserts Crimea is an independent state and not part of Ukraine (reference to autonomy within Ukraine was inserted at a later date).
Mr. Obama did not speak out forcefully enough when Mr. Morsi himself veered off course by pushing through a deeply polarizing constitution asserting near-dictatorial powers.
In the aftermath of the defeat of the secessionist states in the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution asserted that fundamental freedoms for every American could not be denied by individual states.
The first targets are likely to be ethnic republics whose constitutions assert local sovereignty: Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Bashkortostan, Komi, Kabardin-Balkaria, Tatarstan, Tuva and Yakutia.
We have a "color-blind Constitution," he asserts, even though the Supreme Court refused to recognize this until its monumental, unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954.
But bankruptcy is a federal matter, and so CalPERS's opponents may find themselves resting their argument on the supremacy clause of the constitution, which asserts the primacy of federal over state law in the instance of a clash.
So what if the first sentence of Article I Section 8 of the Constitution boldly asserts that among the first four of the more than 20 enumerated powers of Congress is to "provide for the... general Welfare of the United States".
Yet a particularized post-war, Christian, heterosexual and gender-role specific interpretation of marriage has been codified and defended in U.S. state constitutions since Hawaii used the Equal Rights Amendment in their state's constitution to assert that gay and lesbian couples had a right to marry there in 1993 (Baehr v. Lewin).
The new constitution must assert civilian control over the military; protect individual rights and freedom of speech, religion and the press.
We may not ignore the commands of the Constitution by asserting that the defendant brought his difficulties on himself by exercising the precious right to present a defense.
