The amendment won parliamentary approval, but was subsequently rejected by the Constitutional Court.

And, of course, being General Secretary carries no constitutional term limit.

The President of the United States of America (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States.

In this climate, the momentum for political and constitutional reform in Egypt is gathering pace.

Beyond that, however, the observer of contemporary politics will hardly recognize the picture drawn by America's great constitutional theorist.

BUDAPEST This summer, Turkey s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) narrowly escaped being banned by the country s constitutional court.

These steps would precede concrete legal and constitutional reforms, such as those proposed by Hizb al ghad.

Is this the type of secularism that needs to be perpetuated by the Chief Prosecutor s not so soft constitutional coup?

Rather than calling for democracy, this calls for a genuine constitutional rule of law.

Is this the type of secularism that needs to be perpetuated by the Chief Prosecutor s not so soft constitutional coup?

The bill, which has been endorsed by 60 members of parliament, is awaiting discussion by the parliament's legislative and constitutional committees before it is referred for plenary debate.

But, even as it made Thaksin s party illegal, the Constitutional Court failed to unearth any evidence of widespread violations.

They then made use of the Constitutional Court to ban Thaksin s party, the largest in the country.

In a major victory for the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court today ruled Barack Obama's signature health care law is constitutional.

Faced with a possible constitutional coup that would have eviscerated his powers, President Viktor Yushchenko has dissolved Ukraine s parliament and called for new elections.

According to Article 70 of the Constitution, state symbols (which are an anthem, flag and coat of arms) required further definition by future legislation.

Social contracts created by constitutional and administrative laws define the powers and responsibilities of the state and its constituent bodies vis à vis individuals and the private sector. They include the authority to impose taxes and restraints on individuals and private entities through criminal, administrative, and civil law, as well as the state s obligation to provide public goods and services.

Russia s first democratically elected leader, he was also the first Russian leader to give up power voluntarily, and constitutionally, to a successor.

Social contracts created by constitutional and administrative laws define the powers and responsibilities of the state and its constituent bodies vis à vis individuals and the private sector.

However, it was unclear from the text of the bill where this ceremony should take place there is list of places where it is possible to place the emblem of the Russian Federation, which is regulated according to federal constitutional law.

But in 2009 the Supreme Court revoked that Law, ruling that it had an 'anti democratic inspiration' and was incompatible with the new Constitutional order instituted in 1988.

A great opportunity to segregate what is permanent and durable (i.e., constitutional ) about the Union from what is impermanent and changeable (i.e., political ) was missed.

Similarly, there was an increase in public advocacy on behalf of rural workers (who have been migrating by the tens of millions into China's cities), as well as calls for significant constitutional changes.

It is essential to tackle quickly the real causes of violence before it irreparably undermines the credibility of the institutions with constitutional responsibility for the suppression and punishment of crime.

Once the president s illegitimacy is formally acknowledged by a majority of parliamentarians, all his acts will be considered beyond his constitutional powers, and the process of electing a new president will be firmly on track. This can only be reversed by violence, which is unlikely, so strong is the consensus that Lebanon needs a new president, and so ingrained is the rejection of force by all Lebanese.

Once the president s illegitimacy is formally acknowledged by a majority of parliamentarians, all his acts will be considered beyond his constitutional powers, and the process of electing a new president will be firmly on track.

The solution to the impasse over Europe s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an ordinary treaty.

The global pressures pushing European nations closer together are as strong as ever, so the impasse over the EU s constitutional treaty was never going to push Europe off course for very long.

Egypt today is a civil, national, constitutional and modern state, Morsi, wearing a blue business suit and a red tie, told the judges in the wood panelled chamber where he took the oath of office.

That way, if a small minority of EU governments prove unable to ratify the treaty, it would not be torpedoed the way that its predecessor, the Constitutional Treaty, was in 2005.

At his inauguration before the Supreme Constitutional Court, Morsi also became the Arab world's first freely elected Islamist president and Egypt's fifth head of state since the overthrow of the monarchy some 60 years ago.

10. Welcomes the Constituent Peoples decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which reflects the commitment of Bosnia and Herzegovina to meeting the highest standards of human rights and fundamental freedoms

Puyi (溥儀), the last emperor of China, was installed by Japan as the constitutional monarch of Manchuko from 1932 to 1945 and was incarcerated in the Fushun prison along with Japanese administrators and military commanders considered to be war criminals. Puyi at work.

But, by picking up Chirac s challenge, Blair has allowed himself to be drawn away from the general European dilemma (what to do about the Constitutional Treaty) for which Britain is not to blame to a specific policy problem (the CAP s finances) on which Britain is isolated.