Months after assuming power, he called a constitutional convention that rewrote Venezuela's charter to allow re-election.
He was an opponent of slavery and tried to get the Constitutional Convention to ban it.
The answer is a fiddly, technical rule change secured by MEPs during the constitutional convention.
Win Aung: I think their mission wants to know how our national constitutional convention is moving.
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Second, we could decide to hold a new constitutional convention before we go bust.
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One legislator, Christine Loh Kung-wai, calls for a constitutional convention to sort out these issues.
The response to my post July 4 rant that we need a constitutional convention was mostly positive.
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Its constitutional convention in July (in association with The Economist) brought together enthusiasts from all round the country.
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Scottish devolution evolved in the Scottish constitutional convention, a cross-party grouping, far away from Charter 88's Islington epicentre.
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He comes to this conclusion: Our divided nation needs a new Constitutional Convention.
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention delegates from small states feared domination by biggies such as Virginia and New York.
It has challenged the recently formed constitutional convention chaired by the Bishop of Durham to demonstrate how regional government might work.
That was widely accepted in America at the time of the constitutional convention.
The constitutional convention said this should be done by Parliament electing the head of state by a two-thirds majority.
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So this is not the right time to call for a constitutional convention.
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The reason is that a constitutional convention will not be allowed to happen.
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He was an important figure at the Constitutional Convention, where, as a nationalist, he rose above state and sectional interests.
After that, a constitutional convention was to be set up, with the aim of having democratic elections within two years.
Upon reflection, I think that we most certainly will be having some sort of new constitutional convention in the future.
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And it was still years before the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia -- years before this general ended up becoming President.
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The Constitutional Convention and the new Federal Government was created for the purpose of allowing the central government to collect taxes.
No surprise, given what has happened, that this institution, born of a compromise at the Constitutional Convention, should come under withering assault.
At least the Fair Tax Plan proposal requires a Constitutional Convention to eliminate the income tax before instituting a national sales tax.
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It was an extraordinary performance, with the high court acting like a continuing constitutional convention which could simultaneously propose and ratify amendments.
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Some people think it would take a constitutional convention to start fresh.
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During the 1960s the Supreme Court gloried in its opportunity to act as a continuing constitutional convention, creating new doctrines with wild abandon.
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Mr Olmert will stay on all this time as transitional prime minister, bereft, by constitutional convention, of the power to make big new decisions.
And indeed, it was 225 years ago today that the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, and our founders, citizens all, began crafting an extraordinary document.
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This will be modelled on the highly successful cross-party Scottish Constitutional Convention, whose plan for a Scottish parliament is now being enacted by the government.
In March 1989, the Scottish Constitutional Convention held its inaugural meeting.
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