YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s parliament voted against several constitutional amendments Thursday, ensuring that the military’s veto power remains intact and that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ...
Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to ...
It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short-lived. Following the Russian-revolution of 1905 a “constitution” and ...
France’s parliament voted Monday to include the right to abortion in the Constitution of France. The draft law was registered in December 2023 and has been adopted by lawmakers with some amendments.
Six months ago, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants! Under the Constitution, that number should be ZERO. This revelation is ...
Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...
Formal debate on the proposed draft constitution began amid anxiety that amendments to the draft may not require the high thresh hold of a two thirds majority.Speaker Kenneth Marende will tomorrow ...
Constitution Day was this week, established by an act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon ...
The Lok Sabha will today begin a two-day debate on the Constitution to mark the beginning of the 75th year of its adoption in the country. Lawmakers from both government and opposition side are ...
Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U) has expressed deep concern over the continued blockade of its journalists from covering the Presidency, and more recently, Parliament. In a strongly-worded statement ...
We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do hereby, in behalf of these ...
Reporting from Cairo — Egypt’s parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved constitutional amendments that tighten President Abdel Fattah Sisi’s grip on power and could keep him in office until at ...