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He also announced that the Islamist-dominated body writing a new constitution could not be dismissed by courts, something that Egypt's constitutional court had apparently been threatening to do.

"The Constitution could not be more clear," Ms. Gregoire said.

Morsi also said the Islamist-dominated body that is drafting a new constitution could not be dismissed and extended its mandate by two months.

Most egregiously, the army awarded itself an unelected block of a quarter of all seats in the new national and state parliaments so the constitution could not be changed without its consent.

5 A union agreement made pursuant to the Railway Labor Act has, therefore, the imprimatur of the federal law upon it and, by force of the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution, could not be made illegal nor vitiated by any provision of the laws of a State.

Counsel argued that Northern Ireland's constitution could not be changed without a vote by its people.

California had argued that its tax-collecting officials had immunity from suits under state law and thus, under the Constitution, couldn't be sued in another state.

This court held that the suits were virtually against the states themselves, and were consequently violative of the eleventh amendment of the constitution, and could not be maintained.

The rights thus recognized and declared are rights of citizens of the United States under their constitution, which could not be violated by federal authority.

The parlements, frequent critics of arbitrary rule, spread the notion that subjects' rights were protected by a fixed, if ill-defined, constitution that could not be altered without the consent of their representatives.

Under the Arizona constitution, Mathis could not be removed unless Brewer first recommended the move to the state Senate.