Sentence examples for existing constitution from inspiring English sources

Under the emergency declaration, the justices were ordered to take an oath to abide by a "provisional constitutional order" that replaces the country's existing Constitution.

The existing constitution is a byproduct of the 1980 military takeover and directly reflects its limitations.

In 2011 the AKP campaigned for parliamentary elections on a pledge to replace Turkey's existing constitution.

That is pretty much what the existing constitution allows and is already the subject of fierce negotiation between the parties.

The existing constitution dates from 1893, but the direct popular election of the executive council (Regierungsrat) was introduced in 1906.

And his purpose "is not so much to suggest changes in the existing constitution as to encourage us to change the way we think about it".

In addition, the political scientist must attend to existing constitutions even when they are bad.

The Statesman for instance calls existing constitutions mimêmata of moral truths as the philosophical legislators know those truths (297c).

Aristotle notes that "to reform a constitution is no less a task [of politics] than it is to establish one from the beginning," and in this way "the politician should also help existing constitutions" (IV.1.1289a1 7).

Both Mr. Aboul Fotouh and Mr. Moussa declared their support for the provision of the existing Egyptian Constitution, declaring that it is based on the principles of Islamic law.

Dictatorial power in its original, Roman form is a formally delegated and time-limited power to defend an already existing republican constitution through the use of extra-legal force (D xlii-xliv, 1-19).