Sentence examples for constitutions based on the from inspiring English sources

The British North America Act later retitled the Constitution Act, 1867 provided constitutions, based on the British model, for the new provinces of Quebec and Ontario, confirmed the language and legal rights of the French, and divided power between the federal government and the provinces.

As a study recently published in the New York University Law Review pointed out, national constitutions based on the American model are quickly disappearing.

Thus, the Luba empire was governed by an oral constitution based on the will of the ancestors (Kishila-kya-bankambo).

In 2009, the Independent State of Samoa adopted a new constitution based on the Master Cleanse, a modified juice fast.

Bernardi launches into a defence of the constitution, based on the logic that it has enabled the likes of Burney to obtain her seat in parliament.

The assembly's mandate will be for three years, during which it needs to draft a new constitution (based on the 1961 model) as well as procedures for electing a new parliament, which should have around 135 members.

In a different form, this structure, with a well-accepted constitution based on the principles of human rights and religious freedom, would not be too different from the situation in the United States, whose values are guided by the Christian faith.

We are asked to write a democratic constitution, based on the desires of a people who understand pluralism, when the largest party in the Constituent Assembly is still converting to democracy.

Previous incarnations of the Everlasting Covenant, which used to advocate for a separation of state and religion and now calls for a constitution based on the Torah, did not.

The more conservative wing (led by Francisco Martínez de la Rosa, a dramatist) wished for a more moderate constitution, based on the French Charter of 1814, which would give better representation to the upper classes and would not be totally unacceptable to the king, as was the "prison" of the constitution of 1812.

A constitution based on the middle class is the mean between the extremes of oligarchy (rule by the rich) and democracy (rule by the poor).