The upper house had been almost powerless under the former Constitution, but a court order disbanded the more authoritative lower house last spring while Egypt was still under military rule.
"That principle is in this constitution, and in the former constitution in Venezuela.
When Thailand was taken over by a military junta in May 2014, the former constitution which stated that the government must "patronize and protect Buddhism and other religions" was thrown out.
The Bolivian constitution allows a president just two terms, but Morales's party argued that because his first term was under the country's former constitution, which was replaced in 2009, he can legitimately stand again.
Most Egyptian Christians prefer to keep phrasing from Egypt's former constitution, which placed the "principles" of sharia as the main source of legislation, with the proviso that non-Muslims be bound in family matters by their own traditions.
On the former interpretation, a constitution is created by the consent of the people as part of the creation of the commonwealth.
Lisa Downing (2007, Section 6) suggests, in concurrence with Paul Guyer, that we avoid confusion by "regimenting" Locke's terminology, using the term 'real essence' to refer to the former, and 'real constitution' to refer to the latter.
The president announced that parliamentary elections would be held in the year 2000 and presidential elections in 2001, according to the amended--but in violation of the former--constitution.
The former Soviet Union was, by constitution, a federal state; but, apart from the nominal character of at least certain parts of its constitution, the constitutional role entrusted to the Communist Party unified the system to such an extent that the state was essentially unitary with some semifederal aspects.
At his instigation over 500,000 demonstrators clogged the streets of Dhaka on 5 May, demanding the application of 13 measures, including a ban on mixing of men and women in public places, the removal of sculptures and demands for the former wording of the constitution to be reinstated, affirming "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah".
In elections held (1907) under the colony's new constitution, the former commander of the Transvaal's forces in the war, Gen. Louis Botha, led his Het Volk party to a majority and became prime minister with the support of Jan Christian Smuts.
