Not least among them is the fact he is both the president and the army chief of staff, something the Constitution bars.
All over the Bible Belt, this is no news: you're hard put to find a public school where dogmatic evangelical Christianity isn't pushed on kids by school staff members, the Constitution be damned.
Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur made his occupation staff write the Constitution in one week so that it was ready by Abraham Lincoln's birth anniversary on February 12 , 1946 although it did not come into force until May 1947.
None of the mission chiefs was persuaded, however, given the reluctance of past administrations to shed staff who under the constitution enjoy jobs for life.
In Japan, after the allied victory, General Douglas MacArthur and his staff helped draft the constitution, bringing an American imprint to the character of a former foe.
No less a figure than Sami Selcuk, the president of Turkey's Supreme Appeals Court, last month told an audience which included the country's president, prime minister and chief of staff that the 1982 constitution should be scrapped.
In 1946, MacArthur's staff drafted a new constitution that renounced war and stripped the Emperor of his military authority.
That would mean that he would become a vice president of the commission and take over its large external relations budget and staff once a new European constitution is ratified.
FINALISTS: The staff of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; the staff of The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The broadcast said that Colonel Seyni Kountie [Kountché], the recently appointed Chief of Staff, has taken over, suspended the Constitution, dissolved Parliament, and suppressed all political parties.
