Sentence examples for eliminated constitution from inspiring English sources

Congress did so in 1952, and "oddly," the Sons reported in a later history, eliminated Constitution Day as a result.

The change also eliminated Constitution Day, until now celebrated on Dec. 12, and the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, on Nov. 7.

He severely restricted and in some areas eliminated constitutional liberties, and in 1949 he arranged a convention to write a new constitution that would permit his reelection.

It's our democratic duty to do it and it's important to ensure that equality is there and discrimination is eliminated from our constitution," she told VICE News.

Although Article IV placed the Commonwealth's peasantry under the protection of the national lawa first step toward enfranchising the country's largest and most oppressed social classthe low status of the peasantry as compared to other classes was not eliminated, as the constitution did not abolish serfdom.

The film's premise is that while the 13th Amendment to the Constitution eliminated slavery and involuntary servitude, it in effect had an unintentional loophole that asserted "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".

The first president under the 1982 Constitution, Roberto Suazo Córdova, sought to eliminate the constitutional prohibition.

The chamber is all but powerless, and many anticipate that it will be eliminated when a new constitution is written.

In 1943 the French held general elections to implement their earlier grant of Lebanese independence, and Khuri was elected president, although he was temporarily arrested by the French in November 1943 after his government had introduced changes in Lebanon's constitution that eliminated all vestiges of French political influence in the country.

"We could not afford to have the rule of Dr. Morsi continue for one more day," he says emphatically in his posh and spacious offices at the Shura Council, the upper chamber of parliament that was eliminated in the new constitution.

Under the 1994 constitution, the president could serve for only two terms as president, but a change in the constitution in 2004 eliminated term limits.