So constitutions need to be flexible.

Changing constitutions is always a risky business.

Constitutions can, and should, accommodate reform when necessary.

It is among the oldest constitutions in the world.

Constitutions express a political community's history, culture, values, and political convictions.

The French have gone through 13 constitutions in less than 200 years.

Constitutions frequently enshrine lofty principals, and nobly assure protection of fundamental rights.

Ban Ki moon to presidents Leave constitutions alone, give power to people

This vicious cycle of coups, constitutions, and elections defined Thai politics for decades.

After the Second World War, many European countries enshrined extensive social guarantees in their constitutions.

In modern societies, institutional constraints such as constitutions and impersonal legal systems circumscribe such heroic figures.

The problem in Africa is one of effective government, not of elections and high minded constitutions.

Moreover, the constitutions of a number of CSTO countries expressly prohibit sending troops outside national territory.

Politics is by its nature about conflicts, which are sensibly regulated by the rules of democratic constitutions.

After all, establishing a political union would require amendments to national constitutions and, in most countries, referendums.

Of course, constitutions are not meant to protect the status quo if the status quo is rotten.

Of course, several recent Latin American presidents succeeded in changing their countries constitutions to lengthen their terms in office.

Democracy promotion in Turkey and Egypt should focus on strengthening civil society and creating robust constitutions that diffuse power.

Increasingly, people recognize that loose fiscal policy was poor economic policy, with serious implications for macroeconomic thinking, politics, and constitutions.

As was also the case under previous constitutions, under the draft judicature is justified on the principles of Islamic law.

Many constitutions contain such a rule, and even President Vladimir Putin of Russia has stated that he will abide by it.

Constitutions provide modest checks, but private associations of professionals, religions, and regions the heart of civil society provide the deeper balance.

Constitutions provide modest checks, but private associations of professionals, religions, and regions the heart of civil society provide the deeper balance.

Will it block leaders from changing their countries' constitutions to allow them to seek re election after their term limits are over?

It follows from this that constitutions must be changed to reduce the role of Congress, subordinate the judiciary, and centralize economic resources.

Elections and constitutions in Africa Zimbabwe and Gabon s dictatorship have both have never been a safeguard against tyranny and human rights violations.

Electorally competitive countries are not necessarily democratic some do not fully control the state's territory others violate both their constitutions and human rights.

With Latin America s most recent democratic transition, which began in the 1980 s, national constitutions and electoral laws were gradually reformed and modernized.

French politicians are merely following in the footsteps of two nations whose very constitutions invoke Islam as the major source for their laws!

Constitutions works only if all sides have an interest in operating within the proposed framework and this obviously is not the case in Iraq.

All in all, about half the population of the EU lives in states whose constitutions make an explicit reference to God and or Christianity.

For example, many more countries turned to Canada than to America as an example for framing constitutions in the aftermath of the Cold War.

However, given the little weight given to constitutions in Iraq s modern history, it is likely that the political class will leave the text alone.

Most constitutions including the American one aspire to freeze history, or to set up a lasting institutional order that will resist the winds of change.

Instead, a number of European countries are discussing the introduction of stringent fiscal rules into their constitutions, and are contemplating even more far reaching changes.

Real power does not come from the people as the Western style constitutions claim, but from strong financial organisations that look after their own interests.

Two Central Asian countries, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, started the new year off with talk of amending their constitutions to prolong their incumbent leaders' grip on power.

Human Rights Watch urged Yemen's transitional government to set the marriage age to 18 in drafting the new constitutions order to save the childhood and lives of many girls.

The fact that certain social rights have made their way into some national constitutions on the Continent is no reason to impose them, as the present draft does, on the entire Union.

After decades of successively imposed constitutions, an elected assembly has overseen the process of drafting a new permanent constitution, and the draft text will be voted on by ordinary Iraqis on October 15.

The real question is whether an uncertain electorate is prepared to defend democratic constitutions if an extremist who wins by a hair tries to overturn it and usher in a new era of tyranny.

It should reflect the European commitment to the noble heritage of the French Revolution, as reflected in, say, the French constitution, but it should reflect in equal measure the symbolism of those constitutions that include an invocatio dei .

The truest pluralism is embodied by states that can, on the one hand, effectively guarantee both religious freedom and freedom from religion, yet acknowledge without fear even in their constitutions the living faith of many of their citizens.

For this reason, one of the main objectives for this region was set down as that of trying to do away with the threat which the death penalty imposes on the right to life in the majority of the constitutions of these countries.

The Article 12 of 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights recognizes privacy as a fundamental human right. As of today, India joins 151 countries across the world (with notable exceptions of the United States and Ireland) that recognize the right to privacy in their respective constitutions.