Under Mandela the economy grew, a constitution guaranteeing equality and press freedom took root, and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission unearthed many dark secrets of apartheid and granted amnesty to both whites and blacks accused of political violence.
Greece's highest administrative court will rule on whether the country's bailout referendum violates the constitution, amid growing concern that the hastily organised vote falls short of democratic standards.
Rice Urges Shiites to Raise Sunnis' Say in Constitution Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Iraq to urge its new Shiite-dominated government to increase the involvement of Sunni Arabs in writing the Iraqi constitution, amid growing administration alarm that a chance to draw the dispossessed Sunni minority into Iraq's new democracy was slipping away.
If we go the route of a written constitution, the case for which is growing, given how our unwritten constitution is being degraded by ad hoc measures in response to terrorism, immigration, crime and new technologies, it should enshrine the principle that anything with negative implications for civil liberties must carry default sunset clauses.
Proposals for a new constitution grew out of a 2008 crisis that saw the collapse of the country's heavily indebted banks.
These strongly expressed views have drawn the wrath of those who believe the Constitution grows and changes organically, including Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The Constitution grows out of a peace deal signed in January between the Islamic government and the mainly Christian and animist rebels in the south.
They are interested in can the constitution grow in a sensible way that helps them with matters day to day.
Evidently, the Athenian demos was growing more bold, as the Constitution of Athens puts it.
But that, he implies, requires letting go of national sovereignty to a degree that many of Germany's European partners are not willing to contemplate, even if Germany is.This is one reason why, even as the Germans continue to revere their post-war constitution, talk is growing of amending it to allow for deeper European integration.
The possibility of a religious decree by Ayatollah Sistani, who heads the most powerful body of Shiite clerics in Iraq, with a following among millions of Shiites, increased pressure on the American occupation authority to find ways to defuse the growing discord over the interim constitution.
