I do agree with Whelan that any rule of constitutional construction--any doctrine developed to implement the Constitution's guarantees in a particular legal setting, including judicial engagement--must not contradict the original meaning of the Constitution's text.
He has admitted that he lacks the power to carry out his primary responsibility -- implementing the Constitution -- and has declared that "dictatorship continues to haunt us all".
The Eritrean president, Isaias Afewerki, has jailed opponents and government officials who called for democracy, refused to implement the constitution, canceled two elections and stifled the independent press.
"Fidelity to the Constitution means applying its text and its principles to our present circumstances, and making use of the entire tradition of opinions and precedents that have sought to vindicate and implement the Constitution," he writes.
Prompted by Marie-Antoinette, Louis rejected the advice of the moderate constitutionalists, led by Antoine Barnave, to faithfully implement the constitution of 1791, which he had sworn to maintain, and committed himself to a policy of subterfuge and deception.
At Veracruz Juárez faced serious difficulties, for he had to create a government and hold it together through quarrels, betrayals, and defeat; to enforce and implement the constitution; and to maintain armies in the field and defeat the conservative forces.
Mr Morales got favourable treatment from expanded state-owned media.The government will now move to implement the constitution's provision for the decentralisation of power to a mosaic of authorities, including indigenous communities.
When I said to Fuad Hussein, President Barzani's chief of staff, that the dispute over Article 140 seemed to have paralyzed Iraq, he shot back, "It is exactly on the contrary: Iraq is paralyzed because there isn't the will to implement the constitution".
Educators do not fare much better in understanding and implementing the Constitution in the classroom.
It is the People's Committee which has the responsibility to implement "the Constitution, the law, the formal written orders of superior State organs and the resolutions of the People's Council".
