Etiket: Constitution
Germany will bend its constitution to modernize its army
(Berlin) The government and the conservative opposition in Germany reached an agreement on Sunday evening to break the budgetary rules of the national constitution, in order to release 100 billion…
Sunday in politics: “the Constitution provides that it is the Prime Minister who leads the nation”, assures Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Posted on 05/15/2022 14:53 Article written by A few weeks before the legislative elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of the New Popular, Economic and Social Union, was the guest of Francis…
Canada 360 | 40 years since the repatriation of the Constitution: the unfinished promises of article 23
PHOTOGRAPHED BY TARA WALTON, THE NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVES The Franco-Ontarian flag painted in a window in Sudbury, in 2019 Valerie Lapointe-Gagnon Associate Professor, History and Linguistic Rights, Faculty Saint-Jean,…
Can Marine Le Pen modify the Constitution by referendum?
Posted on 04/18/2022 22:15 FRANCE 2 Article written by A.Peyrout, O.Siou, C.Méral, B.Garguy-Chartier, D.Bonnet, B.Bervas – France 2 France Televisions Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen wants to set up a…
[Opinion] Have Quebeckers and Canadians made peace with the Constitution?
More than 25 years after the 1995 referendum on sovereignty and on the eve of the 40and anniversary of the patriation of the Constitution, it can be easy to forget…
40 years after the patriation of the Constitution: a cultural and legal revolution
Ottawa, April 17, 1982. With the stroke of a pen, Queen Elizabeth II proclaims the entry into force of the “new Constitution” of Canada, in which a charter of rights…
[Éditorial de Brian Myles] The repatriation of the Constitution, 40 years later: between resignation and oblivion
In the wake of the unilateral patriation of the Constitution in 1982, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declared that his text would be valid for 1000 years. A true act…
Pope takes on Vatican bureaucracy in new constitution
Pope Francis on Saturday published a new “constitution” governing the functioning of the government of the Catholic Church, which in particular introduces more financial transparency, a promise made before his…
[Idées] The survival of French requires a new Constitution
Clause-by-clause study of Bill 96 has just begun and the separatist and nationalist members of the National Assembly are faced with a dilemma: try to improve piecemeal a bill that…
it would be difficult to go further in the status of the island “without touching the Constitution”, decrypts a specialist
“Without touching the Constitution, I do not see what more could be done than what is currently planned with regard to Corsica” in terms of autonomy, decrypts Wednesday March 16…
Chile: Abortion integrated into the draft new Constitution
The Constitutional Convention of Chile, responsible for drafting a new Constitution to replace the current one inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), approved on Tuesday a provision authorizing…
The editorial answers you | The bilingualism of judges and the Canadian Constitution
Do you have questions about our editorials? Questions about hot topics in the news? Each week, the editorial team responds to readers of The Press. Posted at 11:00 a.m. Philip…
A Constitution for Quebec
The idea that Quebec should adopt its own Constitution is obviously not new. But, just a few months before the next provincial election, it seems to us that it should…
Hold the pencil for the Constitution
We recently learned in the newspapers of the intention of the Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette, to relaunch the discussion on a draft Constitution of Quebec. I take this opportunity…
Amendments to the Constitution | Belarusians vote in favor of strengthening the powers of the president
(Moscow) More than 65% of Belarusians voted on Sunday for the amendments to the Constitution proposed by President Alexander Lukashenko, announced the Central Electoral Commission of this former Soviet republic.…
Jolin-Barrette is working on a “Constitution of Quebec”
(Quebec) René Lévesque had thought about it, the idea had come back under Lucien Bouchard. Bernard Landry took over, followed by Pauline Marois and Daniel Turp. Last year, even Dominique…
Florence Porcel lodged a new complaint for “rape” with constitution of civil party
This new complaint with the constitution of civil party automatically leads to the opening of a judicial investigation, entrusted to an investigating judge. Article written by Posted the 11/25/2021 6:01…
Official languages: the French character of Quebec… in a legal Constitution in English
While the National Assembly of Quebec is preparing to propose, as part of Bill 96 amending the Charter of the French language, the addition of two provisions to the Constitution…
Original copy of the Constitution of the United States | American billionaire bought it to loan it to a museum
(New York) An American billionaire bought an original copy of the United States Constitution of 1787 at auction Thursday night for $ 43 million and will loan it to a…
Record for a historical document | An original copy of the US Constitution sold for US $ 43 million
(New York) An extremely rare original copy of the US Constitution signed September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia was auctioned Thursday in New York for $ 43 million, a world record…