Similarly battered, Thailand not only formed a new government, but also approved a radical new constitution, providing substantial checks on government power.
Since the late nineties — the period in which Chavez has been in power — he has won, hands down, every single referendum and election and plebiscite he chose to muster, with the exception of one: a radical new constitution which failed at the polls two years ago.
Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross received assurances that the new, Radical-influenced constitutions ratified in South Carolina and Arkansas would be transmitted to the Congress without delay, an action which would give him and other senators political cover to vote for acquittal.
Gloria Salas, at a polling station in Santiago, said: "I think that she can make the changes I want without being really radical: A new constitution, health, education, pensions.
The proposals were far more radical than the constitution of 1793, and identify closely with the legendarily fearsome traditions of ancient Sparta.
During the same period, Saint-Just draFragmentsmentsurur les institutions républicaines, proposals far more radical than the constitutions he had helped to frame; this work laid the theoretical groundwork for a communal and egalitarian society.
In accusing Congress of voting "to deny the federal courts the ability to decide a key constitutional issue involving gay marriage" ("A Radical Assault on the Constitution," editorial, July 24), you got it backward.
A radical revision of the constitution was agreed.
The "radical assault on the Constitution" is coming from our courts, not from our legislators.
