And in broadly adopting the US constitution, conference delegates agree on a democratic structure with individual freedoms protected by a bill of rights.
(From a 2005 entry on the blog for the "Constitution 2020" conference at Yale Law School) Used to work as: The executive director of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, a left-leaning legal organization in Washington.
Mr. Pachachi said he expected that the Governing Council would soon select a constitution-writing conference, and that the process could be finished in time for a constitution to be approved in a referendum by next June.
According to the Lib Dem constitution, a special conference is triggered when 200 ordinary members from at least 20 different local parties request it.
(A book inspired by the conference, "The Constitution in 2020," has just been published).
But on Thursday, a county judge in Atlanta said the decision violated the conference's constitution because it was made by telephone and had not involved all 44 board members.
Plaid Cymru has agreed wide-ranging changes to its constitution at a special conference in Aberystwyth.
Kevin Smyth, the CIU's general secretary, is supporting a motion to revoke the relevant clause in the constitution at the union's conference next year.
"These groups are dangerous," Burkhard Freier, who leads the state's domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said at a news conference in Düsseldorf.
The Zimbabwe constitution agreed at the Lancaster House conference and granted by Britain represents a hard-earned political victory achieved principally through a sustained and bitter armed struggle.
If he doesn't intervene to stop the bloodshed, we will turn to the legitimacy of the revolution, not the constitution," ElBaradei told a news conference.
