A constitution was promulgated in 1889; drawn up on the Prussian model, it gave unusually broad powers to the emperor. The prerogatives of the Diet were sharply limited. The constitution gave legal sanction to a reactionary alliance of the monarchy, the upper levels of the bureaucracy, the ...
The article stressed that China's basic economic system, which has been incorporated into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Party Constitution, will not and cannot be changed. The Party and the country ensure that economic entities under all forms of ownership have equal...
The RSFSR includes (according to the 1978 Constitution of the RSFSR) 16 autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, six krais, 49 oblasts, and ten autonomous okrugs (formerly national okrugs). The autonomous republics are the Bashkir ASSR, Buriat ASSR, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Chuvash ASSR, ...
The Committee recommends that the State party revisit its Constitution and to insert the word gender or sex in article 6 as a prohibited ground of discrimination, and to adopt and effectively implement comprehensive legislation on gender equality, including a prohibition of discrimination against women...
as they found power-sharing between Protestants and Catholics unacceptable. In 1974, hard-line Ulster Protestants won 11 of the province's 12 seats in the British House of Commons and pledged to renegotiate Ulster's constitution in order to end the Protestant-Catholic coalition and progress toward...
CONSTITUTION:When coins are thrown in a coil slot and a button for chewing gum is pressed, a current which rotates a driven gear 29 to the position where a switch lever pressure cam 31 and a roller 61 abut on each other flows to a motor 35. When the switch lever pressing cam 31 and...
Footnote252 Willinsky specifically argues his case from the right to science in the US Constitution, that is, Congress’s power ‘To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts’ (ArtI.S8.C8.1).Footnote253 However, a substantial financial burden would likely still rest on institutions and ...
Before the extract printed above, Zimmern had been explaining why Australia was formally called a ‘Commonwealth’ when a federal constitution was adopted in 1901. He proceeds to explain that the use of ‘commonwealth’ for ‘empire’ has a different origin and to trace a connection between the...
Proposed measures for improving the long-term health outcomes of PLHIV build on key principles in the fields of HIV and global health, including principles expressed in the Constitution of the World Health Organization57, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development104, the United Nations Political ...
Considering the rather large catalogue of rights found within the Chinese constitution, in the following we will make use of the right to liberty of person (renshen ziyou 人身自由) as stipulated in article 37 of the PRC Constitution as a case study. A challenge to this choice, however, is...