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Status of the Constitution
- English
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9. This Constitution is the Supreme Law of the State.
10. All laws in force in the territory of Bhutan at the time of adopting this Constitution shall continue until altered, repealed or amended by Parliament. However, the provisions of any law, whether made before or after the coming into force of this Constitution, which are inconsistent with this Constitution, shall be null and void.
… (Art. 1) - Dzongkha
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༩) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་མངོན་པར་མཐོ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ཨིན།
༡༠) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ཆ་འཇོག་གྲུབ་པའི་དུས་ཚོད་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་མངའ་ཁོངས་ལུ་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་ཆ་མཉམ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སོར་བཅོས་ ཡང་ན་ ཆ་མེད་ འཕྲི་སྣོན་མ་གནང་ཚུན་ དེ་ཚུའི་ཁྱབ་དབང་འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན། ཨིན་རུང་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ཆ་འཇོག་གྲུབ་ པའི་སྔ་ཕྱི་ནམ་རང་བརྩམས་པའི་ཁྲིམས་གང་ཞིག་གི་དགོངས་དོན་ཚུ་ལས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་མ་མཐུན་མི་ཚུ་ ནུས་མེད་དང་བདེན་སྟོང་ ཨིན།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༽
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe duties of Bolivians are:
1. To know, comply with, and ensure the enforcement of the Constitution and the laws.
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3. To promote and spread the practice of the values and principles proclaimed by the Constitution.
… (Art. 108) - SpanishSon deberes de las bolivianas y los bolivianos:
1. Conocer, cumplir y hacer cumplir la Constitución y las leyes
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3. Promover y difundir la práctica de los valores y principios que proclama la Constitución.
… (Art. 108)
Status of the Constitution
- English
Respecting the Basic Statute of the State, laws, royal decrees and orders, and regulations and decisions issued by public authorities in the implementation of them, as well as observing public order and respecting public morality, is a duty on citizens, residents, and those present in the Sultanate. (Art. 47)
- Arabic
احترام النظام الأساسي للدولة، والقوانين، والمراسيم والأوامر السلطانية، واللوائح، والقرارات الصادرة من السلطات العامة تنفيذا لها، ومراعاة النظام العام، واحترام الآداب العامة واجب على المواطنين والمقيمين والموجودين في السلطنة. (المادّة ٤٧)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) The Government shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, and the form of the Government shall not be altered save in pursuance of the power conferred by Article 85.
(2) Nothing in this Constitution shall be deemed to derogate from the prerogative powers and jurisdiction of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan and, for the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan retains the power to make laws and to proclaim a further Part or Parts of the law of this Constitution as to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan from time to time may seem expedient. (Sec. 84) - Malay(1) Kerajaan hendaklah diatur perjalanannya menurut peruntukan-peruntukan Perlembagaan ini, dan bentuk Kerajaan itu tidak boleh diubah kecuali menurut kuasa yang diberikan oleh Perkara 85.
(2) Tiada sebarang apa pun dalam Perlembagaan ini boleh dianggap mengurangkan hak dan kuasa kedaulatan Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan dan, bagi mengelakkan kewahaman, maka adalah diisytiharkan bahawa Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan berkuasa untuk membuat undang-undang dan memasyhurkan lagi satu Bahagian atau Bahagian-Bahagian Perlembagaan ini dari masa ke semasa jika difikirkan oleh Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan elok diperbuat demikian. (Sec. 84)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishEach rural, native, or indigenous autonomy shall draft its Statute according to its own norms and procedures, in conformity with the Constitution and the law. (Art. 292)
- SpanishCada autonomía indígena originario campesina elaborará su Estatuto, de acuerdo a sus normas y procedimientos propios, según la Constitución y la Ley. (Art. 292)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) Any law, or any custom or usage having the force of law, in so far as it is inconsistent with the rights conferred by this Chapter,13 shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, be void.
(2) The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights so conferred and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of such contravention, be void.
… (Art. 8) - Urdu(ا)کوئی قانون، یا رسم یا رواج جو قانون کا حکم رکھتا ہو، تناقض کی اس حد تک کالعدم ہو گا جس حد تک وہ اس باب میں عطا کردہ حقوق کا نقیض ہو۔
(٢) مملکت کوئی ایسا قانون وضع نہیں کرے گی جوبایں طورعطا کردہ حقوق کو سلب یا کم کرے اور ہر وہ قانون جو اس شق کی خلاف ورزی میں وضع کیا جائے اس خلاف ورزی کی حد تک کالعدم ہو گا۔
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Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court shall repeal or invalidate a law if it determines that the law does not conform to the Constitution. The Constitutional Court shall repeal or invalidate a collective agreement, other regulation or enactment, statute or programme of a political party or association, if it determines that the same does not conform to the Constitution or law. The decisions of the Constitutional Court are final and executive. (Art. 112)
- MacedonianУставниот суд ќе укине или поништи закон ако утврди дека не е во согласност со Уставот. Уставниот суд ќе укине или поништи друг пропис или општ акт, колективен договор, статут или програма на политичка партија или здружение, ако утврди дека тие не се во согласност со Уставот или со закон. Одлуките на Уставниот суд се конечни и извршни. (Член 112)
Status of the Constitution
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21) Each citizen has the duty to defend the fatherland and the obligation to protect and to respect the Constitution, the laws and the regulations of the Republic;
… (Art. 1) - French…
21°) Chaque citoyen a le devoir de défendre la patrie et l’obligation de protéger et de respecter la Constitution, les lois et les règlements de la République;
… (Art. 1)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe Costa Ricans must observe the Constitution and the laws, … (Art. 18)
- SpanishLos costarricenses deben observar la Constitución y las leyes, … (Art. 18)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishEvery citizen shall be subjected to the duty of respecting the Constitution and laws. (Art. 35)
- Arabicعلى كل مواطن واجب احترام الدستور والقوانين. (المادّة 35)