Constitutional Amendments and Changes
The controversies over interposition, nullification (both involving claims that states could defy Federal laws), secession, and slavery that led to the Civil War ...
Read more
The United States Constitution has endured for more than two centuries as the framework of government. However, the meaning of the Constitution has been changed by both formal and informal methods. ...
Read more
A state-appointed human rights body accused Egypt's government of fraud Tuesday, charging that public sector-workers were forced to vote in a referendum on constitutional reform. But the government...
Read more
Beirut (dpa) - The head of Lebanon's Christian Maronites, Cardinal
Nasrallah Sfeir, Sunday gave his backing to a constitutional
amendment to help pave the way to elect army ...
Read more
Beirut (dpa) - Lebanon's Western-backed government on Monday
approved a bill to amend the constitution to allow army commander
General Michel Suleiman to be elected preside...
Read more
Johannesburg/Harare (dpa) - Zimbabwe's opposition Thursday fought
off accusations of "treachery" from rights groups opposed to the
party's decision to back controversial ame...
Read more
Beirut (dpa) - A draft petition for an amendment to Lebanon's
constitution to allow the country's army chief to be elected
president, has been submitted to the speaker of th...
Read more
Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, endorsed by the National Right To Life Committee, said Sunday that reversing Roe v. Wade would allow states to restrict abortion, but acknowledged t...
Read more
A group lobbying for a constitutional ban on gay marriage concedes that its chances are slim with Democrats controlling Congress. So now it's setting its sights on state legislatures.The Washington...
Read more
Warsaw (dpa - Supporters and opponents of abortion hit the
streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Wednesday as a debate got
underway in parliament on proposed constitutional a...
Read more
Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published July 25)
Earlier this...
Read more
Astana/Moscow (dpa) - Kazakhstan's authoritarian President
Nursultan Nazarbayev has consolidated his grip on power via a series
of constitutional amendments that will allow ...
Read more
Constitutional Amendments and Changes
Methods to Change the Constitution
Egypt: Constitutional amendments pass
