Egypt's new constitution supposedly enshrines free speech, except "in times of war", a term the government has used to describe the crackdown on Islamists.
The motion contends Mosby's speech was in violation of the 14th amendment, which enshrines the right to equal protection under the law.
This thinking only enshrines "government" as an entity, and makes it easier for those who work inside it to think of themselves as separate – and more powerful – than those outside it.
However what seems to have been lost in the political fray – sadly, in both hemispheres now – is the credo of a civil society that enshrines that seeking asylum is not illegal.
If the process of drafting the constitution was politically one-sided, so is the document itself: its preamble – the "profession of national faith" – enshrines an ethnic vision of Hungary as a Christian country and rather pathetically evokes historical grandeur.
The men who shaped the constitution, which enshrines the separation of powers among the different parts of government, made sure that the executive branch the president—is kept in check by the legislative branch Congress.
Now Lord Hall needs to convince the government not to mete out similarly severe treatment to the licence fee, a £145.50 ($250) levy on Britain's TV-owning households, when the charter that enshrines the BBC's funding comes up for renewal in 2016.
The result is a document that has been widely praised as fair and progressive.Unlike the case in Egypt, where voters this week have almost certainly been endorsing a hastily drafted constitution that enshrines Islamic law, restricts religious freedom to "revealed faiths" and grants unusual privileges to the army and police, Tunisians will enjoy full freedom of conscience.
He rejects the dissidents' claim to be acting under a constitutional provision that enshrines the right to disobey a government that subverts democracy, arguing that they are engaged in a coup similar to one which briefly overthrew him last April.Another who could use a miracle is Cesar Gaviria, secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS).
The constitution that emerged in 2008 duly enshrines the role of the army.
The British government wants to minimise the risk that the charter, which enshrines such things as a right to strike, could threaten their liberalising, Thatcher-era labour-law reforms.Such British and Polish worries provoke much head-shaking in EU circles.
