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- 1From:National Review (Vol. 75, Issue 4)There is a great deal of truth beneath John Adams's famous claim that "Liberty once lost is lost forever." And yet, if it were accurate in all circumstances, our country would look much different from its current state....
- 2From:The New American (Vol. 38, Issue 19)The U.S. Constitution is under attack. On one hand, the federal government is blatantly ignoring its constitutional limitations, usurping power not delegated to it by the Constitution. On the other hand, certain...
- 3From:National Right to Life NewsNot as well known as some other pro-abortion initiatives, Vermont's Article 22, the proposed amendment that would enshrine in the Vermont Constitution an unrestricted right to abortion throughout all nine months of...
- 4From:The EconomistDictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions I N 2014 TUNISIA adopted a new constitution, three years after Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the country's dictator, was ousted in a revolt. It made Tunisia...
- 5From:The EconomistVoters should be sceptical of attempts to solve problems by fiddling with constitutions A MAN WALKS into a library and asks for a copy of the French constitution. "I'm sorry," replies the librarian. "We don't stock...
- 6From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 58, Issue 23)1 Dioceses fail in transparency Before Voice of the Faithful prepared a July 13 report on diocesan finance councils, it gave dioceses a heads-up that it would be working on such a report and what it would be looking...
- 7From:The Progressive (Vol. 86, Issue 4)Excerpted from The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It, by Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville. Copyright [c] 2022. Available from PublicAffairs,...
- 8From:The EconomistA new draft constitution would shift the country far to the left "I N THE MIDDLE of a political…crisis not seen in our country in decades, Chileans opted for more democracy, not less," exclaimed Gabriel Boric,...
- 9From:Country Report: VanuatuWhat's happened? At the start of a new parliamentary session, due to begin on June 10th, the legislature will debate a series of constitutional amendments that have potentially far-reaching effects for the country's...
- 10From:The American Conservative (Vol. 20, Issue 3)The United States of America is heading for divorce court. Our land now hosts two different, hostile cultures, both of which are rapidly coming to the conclusion that their differences are irreconcilable. As indeed they...
- 11From:The EconomistThe constitutional convention Unhappy Republican state lawmakers aim to change Pennsylvania's constitution ORDINARILY THE swearing-in of elected lawmakers in Pennsylvania's state House is a formality. Pictures are...
- 12From:The Baltic TimesThe National Alliance's proposal to provide a definition of family in the Constitution would lead us back to Soviet times, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins (New Unity) believes. On Wednesday, Karins met with lawmakers...
- 13From:The EconomistChileans will probably vote to scrap their constitution. That would have momentous consequences A YEAR AFTER the outbreak of huge protests in which at least 30 people died, Chileans assembled again. The combination of...
- 14From:Country Report: ThailandEvent On September 24th parliament voted to delay, by at least a month, consideration of proposals for constitutional amendments submitted by the opposition. Analysis Lawmakers approved, by 432 to 255 votes, a...
- 15From:The Economist (Vol. 434, Issue 9185)Vladimir Putin, Russia 's president, said that he would be prepared to continue in office past 2024, when his fourth and supposedly final presidential term expires. The Russian parliament voted this week to amend the...
- 16From:The Economist (Vol. 434, Issue 9185)Why Vladimir Putin simply can't leave SHORTLY AFTER becoming president in 2000, the 48-year-old Vladimir Putin pondered how he would one day leave office. Riding in a presidential limousine through Moscow at night,...
- 17From:The Economist (Vol. 434, Issue 9185)The Russian president reluctantly agrees to stay on for another 16 years, if that's what his people want WHAT A CONVENIENT thing a tame parliament is. On March 10th, acting on a proposal from the first woman in space...
- 18From:The Economist (Vol. 432, Issue 9155)Can Shinzo Abe change the country's basic law? IN THE 1950s Nobusuke Kishi, then Japan's prime minister, tried to change the constitution that America had imposed on the country in the aftermath of the second world...
- 19From:New Statesman (Vol. 148, Issue 5477)The United Kingdom is in a constitutional impasse. The government cannot command a majority in parliament to separate from the European Union's constitutional order, even though it has for three years been trying to do...
- 20From:Claremont Review of Books (Vol. 19, Issue 3)THE KNESSET, ISRAELS PARLIAMENT, passed a law last year declaring Israel 'the national home of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, cultural, religious, and historical right to self-determination." One...