Sentence examples for the first constitution from inspiring English sources

The year before Baskerville's arrival, the ailing king of Iran, Mozaffar ud-Din Shah, had bowed to popular demands for a constitutional monarchy and Iranians had drafted the first Constitution of their 25-century-long history.

The first constitution of Senegal was promulgated in 1963 and revised through March 1998.

The first constitution for the new multinational federation was ratified in January 1924.

Henry served on the committee in the Virginia Convention of 1776 that drafted the first constitution for the state.

The first constitution was enacted in 1835, but statehood was delayed until 1837 by the so-called Toledo War, a boundary dispute with Ohio.

Missouri is governed under its fourth constitution, ratified in 1945, but the basic structure of government has remained constant since the first constitution of 1820.

Several months ago, the Mubarak-appointed courts dissolved the democratically elected, Islamist-led lower house of Parliament and the first constitution-drafting committee.

The first constitutions of the independent republic of Colombia owed as much to Bentham as do modern theories of animal rights.

The democratically elected lower house of parliament and the first constitution-drafting committee had been dissolved by court orders, and there was speculation that the courts would soon try to disband the upper house of parliament and the Constituent Assembly, the body that is writing the nation's new constitution.

"The Fourth Constitution of the People's Republic of China". Review of Socialist Law 9 2 (1983): 113-124.

This process was overseen by Count Ioánnis Kapodístrias, who was elected the first president of Greece by the Assembly of Troezene, which in 1827 enacted the third constitution of the independence period.