For example, although the Constitution prohibited the establishment of an official religion at the national level, the official state-supported religion of Massachusetts was Congregationalism until 1833.
Since the late 1980s, administrative regulation has prohibited the establishment of new hospitals, but the establishment of new clinics and the selection of specialties are carried out according to individual physicians' preferences.
A new constitution, promulgated in 1949 by Figueres's regime, prohibited the establishment or maintenance of an army, established women's suffrage, strengthened the electoral tribunal, abolished institutionalized racism, nationalized the banking system, and gave great powers to state corporations, known as autonomous agencies.
She said current legislation prohibited the establishment of "drugs consumption rooms" staffed by health workers.
The law took effect last February, but Congress, which controls the city's budget, prohibited the establishment of a regulatory framework that would have allowed for retail sales of the drug.
Lack of contact between family carers and members of staff prohibited the establishment of mutual understanding.
By this time it was realized that, thanks to Supreme Court rulings on the First Amendment to the Constitution (that which prohibits the establishment of state religion), it was not possible to exclude the teaching of evolution from such schools.
By contrast with the United States, whose First Amendment prohibits any establishment of religion, there is a Church of England "by law established," with the queen as its supreme governor.
The first clause prohibits "an establishment of religion".
Ten Commandments cases are typically litigated under the clause of the First Amendment prohibiting government establishment of religion.
