Sentence examples for earlier constitution from inspiring English sources

The ingenious argument is that really this would be only a second term, since his first victory, in 1990, came under an earlier constitution.

An earlier constitution (1973) created a National Assembly composed of appointed members and others elected by popular vote, but after a period of labour unrest and political agitation the assembly was dissolved by the emir in 1975.

And he probably will be able to stand if he chooses: the constitution bars a third term, but a later, controversial law interpreting it allows him, since his first term was under an earlier constitution, to say that, under the new one, he is only in his first term anyway.

But political transformation remained within the earlier constitution's legal boundaries, making it easier for the outgoing authoritarians to protect themselves, including securing immunity for past crimes.

For example, a by-law is legally valid because it is created by a corporation lawfully exercising the powers conferred on it by the legislature, which confers those powers in a manner provided by the constitution, which was itself created in a way provided by an earlier constitution.

The earliest constitutions appeared in Venezuela, Chile, and New Granada in the years 1811 12.

The other provinces, minus Buenos Aires province, promulgated the first Constitution in 1853, under the intellectual influence of Alberdi, with clear inspiration from the US, Swiss, and other early constitutions.

This function was first recorded in 196, the date of the earliest constitutions contained in the Gregorian Codex, but the city is thought to have served as a repository since earlier times.

However, while early constitutions may have differed considerably, by the early nineteenth century, they almost uniformly began increasingly shifting responsibility for legislation out of the hands of elected politicians and giving it to the citizenry at large.

The earliest constitutions did not mention the environment or digital privacy, for example.

Before the U.S. Constitution was drafted, states argued over the nation's earlier effective constitution, the Articles of Confederation.