Sentence examples for several constitutions from inspiring English sources

Egypt has operated under several constitutions, both as a monarchy and, after 1952, as a republic.

Several constitutions and courts in Latin America have recently moved in this direction by making the right to food a legally enforceable right, but the international system, including the UN, still lags behind.

Since human ES cells are derived from pre-implantation human embryos, they are considered 'human beings' by the Catholic Church, and therefore have the same moral status of a 'person', as defined by several constitutions such as those of US and Italy (Avila, 2001; Mazzoni, 2002).

MORRIS said he meant to facilitate the adoption of the plan, by leaving the modes approved by the several State Constitutions to be followed.

An inhibition is contained in the several state constitutions against their legislatures passing a bill of attainder or an ex post facto law, and yet a like inhibition against state action is embodied in the constitution of the United States.

To help him guide this document's creation, Ndulo enlisted students Calli Ferreira LL.M. '11; Lilian Balasanian '11; Ejemen Ofoman LL.M. '11; and Kamilka Malwatte '11, who performed a comparative study of several states' constitutions in search of best practices.

Mr Rauh says bondholders should worry because several state constitutions, including those of Illinois and New York, make state pensions senior to bond debt.Still, the assumption of many investors is that the federal government would never let a state default.

What is sometimes called a "repugnancy clause," mandating that a judicial body overturn laws repugnant to Islam, has made its way into several recent constitutions that seek to reconcile Islam and democracy.

Any suggestion that viva voce voting infringed the accepted understanding of the pre-existing freedom of speech to which the First Amendment 's text refers is refuted by the fact that several state constitutions that required or authorized viva voce voting also explicitly guaranteed the freedom of speech.

So, in Mason's draft, not only do all persons have "certain natural rights" of life liberty and property, but these rights cannot be taken away "by any compact". As we shall see, Mason's words became even more canonical than Jefferson's more succinct version in the Declaration of Independence, as variations were incorporated into several state constitutions.

He observed that this discrimination had been transcribed from the British into several American constitutions.