Sentence examples for the old constitution from inspiring English sources

The elected president can be expected to exert pressure to maintain the lion's share of the imperial powers granted to him by the old constitution and, implicitly, the constitutional declaration.

The old constitution had been a nuisance.

We have to stop working with the old constitution, because it was made by a dictator".

After all, the old constitution had originated as a Stalinist document in 1949.

The European commissioner Margot Wallstrom says: "It's essentially the same proposal as the old constitution".

Yet the old constitution gives them power, and Carswell and Evans have lavished them with attention.

Debates rage over whether to scrap the old constitutions immediately or to reform them temporarily, whether to push for early elections or hold off until rules are set and the playing field levelled, and whether to opt for presidential or parliamentary political systems.

But you have the oldest constitution in the world.

They explained that the U.S. with the oldest constitution, probably has the hardest to change constitution in the world, suggesting that it has become fetishized, with constitutional fundamentalism based on "textualism" and "originalism" which Justices Scalia and Thomas both advocate.

It is among the oldest constitutions in the world.

When Butler was speaking he was part of the last remnants of the old establishment; now the British constitution is something GCHQ makes up as it goes along.