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.
Scottish devolution evolved in the Scottish constitutional convention, a cross-party grouping, far away from Charter 88's Islington epicentre.
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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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At the 1787 Constitutional Convention delegates from small states feared domination by biggies such as Virginia and New York.
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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He was an important figure at the Constitutional Convention, where, as a nationalist, he rose above state and sectional interests.
Upon reflection, I think that we most certainly will be having some sort of new constitutional convention in the future.
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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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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.
But Mr Stern, like Mr George, believes that the process must be improved and supports the idea of a constitutional convention in California for that purpose.
It was on September 17, 1787, that 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the Constitution of the United States.
"Everything the UAW has fought for at the bargaining table is under attack, " Gettelfinger told 1, 400 delegates gathered at the UAW's constitutional convention in Las Vegas.
Governing council head Ahmed Chalabi said the group would determine a method of selecting delegates to a constitutional convention but would not itself write the constitution.
After the war, when the founding fathers reassembled in Philadelphia to craft the U.S. Constitution, Washington was named president of the Constitutional Convention, and he willingly served.
By then, campaigners for a northern assembly hope to have completed their scheme to set up a constitutional convention to devise a plan for northern regional government.
Thomas Jefferson did not take part in the Constitutional Convention.
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The notes of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention assume it, as do the Federalist Papers which were written in order to persuade the people to vote for it.
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In the North-East, a constitutional convention is being formed to see whether political parties, business interests, councils and other groups can agree on a plan for an elected assembly.
The Constitution of the United States, for example, would not have been written had it not been for the compromise of small states and large states, at the Constitutional Convention.
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Markets are unlikely to wait for the EU to call a constitutional convention, debate schemes for integration and negotiate a text, only to see it buffeted in parliamentary votes and referendums.
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During the Constitutional Convention, Madison resisted a Bill of Rights because he believed that it would be impossible to avoid an unintended and undesirable negative pregnant unless every conceivable right were enumerated.
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