But while Indians across the country celebrated the vote, the Constitution opens a new stage of uncertainty in fractious Bolivia.
The constitution opens with a strange, rambling preamble that in translation stretches for more than thirteen hundred words, mentioning, in the following order, Allah, Moses, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Prophet Muhammad, Muhammad Ali Pasha, Refaa the Azharian, Ahmed Orabi, Mostafa Kamel, Mohamed Farid, Saad Zaghloul, Mostafa el-Nahhas, Talaat Harb, and Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Although her English was limited at the time – Nammi arrived in the UK as a political refugee from Kurdistan Iran – she enlisted the help of friends who helped her draw up a constitution, open up a bank account for the organisation and even become her first trustees.
But in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents that the Constitution opens the courthouse door to lawsuits over these violations.
It was no idle happenstance that the Constitution opens with these three powerful words: "We the people... .. This, in effect, makes "the people" the guardians of America's future.
I sometimes wonder if the founding fathers were so wise to leave the Constitution "open to interpretation".
The "Restore the Constitution Open-Carry Rally" was conducted in Fort Hunt National Park, and attendees came armed with handguns, rifles, shotguns and assault weapons.
Hannah Mather Crocker, in an apology for Freemasonry written in 1815, claims to have presided over such a lodge, yet her description, "founded on the original principles of true ancient masonry, as far as was consistent with the female character" leaves the actual constitution open to question.
The two events -- the "Second Amendment March" at the Washington Monument on the National Mall and the "Restore the Constitution Open-Carry Rally" at Fort Hunt National Park in Virginia -- will feature a number of speakers who are current and former militia leaders or who have ties to extreme, anti-government groups.
Pemex needs investment capital to develop oil reserves and gas fields, but it is barred by the Constitution from opening up to private companies.
On Monday, the Associated Press detailed how an appeals court ruled an Upstate New York town violated the Constitution by opening its meetings with prayers stressing Christianity, which propelled the case to the highest level.
