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Status of the Constitution
- English
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20. The Druk Gyalpo shall abdicate the Throne for willful violations of this Constitution or for being subject to permanent mental disability, on a motion passed by a joint sitting of Parliament in accordance with the procedure as laid down in sections 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 of this Article.
… (Art. 2) - Dzongkha
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༢༠) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་མཁྱེན་བཞིན་དུ་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ལས་འགལ་བ་ ཡང་ན་ དྲན་ཤེས་ཀྱིས་རྩ་གཏན་ལས་ ལྕོགས་ གྲུབ་ མེད་ པའི་དབང་ལུ་ཐལ་བའི་གྲོས་དོན་ཅིག་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དོན་ཚན་༢༡ པ་དང་ ༢༢ པ་ ༢༣ པ་ ༢༤ པ་ ༢༥ པ་བཅས་ ཀྱི་ནང་བཀོད་པའི་ བྱ་བའི་ གནད་སྤྱོད་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ལྷན་བཞུགས་ཀྱིས་ཆ་འཇོག་གྲུབ་ཚེ་ རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་སྤང་ནི།
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Status of the Constitution
- English(1) The conclusion of an international treaty containing stipulations contrary to the Constitution shall require prior constitutional amendment.
… (Sec. 95) - Spanish1. La celebración de un tratado internacional que contenga estipulaciones contrarias a la Constitución exigirá la previa revisión constitucional.
… (Art. 95)
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
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(6) If a law is rescinded as unconstitutional by a ruling of the Constitutional Court, the legal provisions rescinded by the law which the Constitutional Court has pronounced unconstitutional enter into force again unless the judgement pronounces otherwise, on the day of entry into force of the rescission. The publication on the rescission of the law shall also announce whether and which legal provisions again enter into force.
(7) If a law has been rescinded on the score of unconstitutionality or if the Constitutional Court has pursuant to para 4 above pronounced a law to be unconstitutional, all courts and administrative authorities are bound by the Constitutional Court’s decision. The law shall however continue to apply to the circumstances effected before the rescission the case in point excepted, unless the Constitutional Court in its rescissory ruling decides otherwise.
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(6) Wird durch ein Erkenntnis des Verfassungsgerichtshofes ein Gesetz als verfassungswidrig aufgehoben, so treten mit dem Tag des Inkrafttretens der Aufhebung, falls das Erkenntnis nicht anderes ausspricht, die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen wieder in Kraft, die durch das vom Verfassungsgerichtshof als verfassungswidrig erkannte Gesetz aufgehoben worden waren. In der Kundmachung über die Aufhebung des Gesetzes ist auch zu verlautbaren, ob und welche gesetzlichen Bestimmungen wieder in Kraft treten.
(7) Ist ein Gesetz wegen Verfassungswidrigkeit aufgehoben worden oder hat der Verfassungsgerichtshof gemäß Abs. 4 ausgesprochen, dass ein Gesetz verfassungswidrig war, so sind alle Gerichte und Verwaltungsbehörden an den Spruch des Verfassungsgerichtshofes gebunden. Auf die vor der Aufhebung verwirklichten Tatbestände mit Ausnahme des Anlassfalles ist jedoch das Gesetz weiterhin anzuwenden, sofern der Verfassungsgerichtshof nicht in seinem aufhebenden Erkenntnis anderes ausspricht.
… (Art. 140)
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;
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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;
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Status of the Constitution
- English1. Subject to the provisions of Article 1A, this Constitution shall be the supreme law of the Republic.
2. No law or decision of the House of Representatives or of any of the Communal Chambers and no act or decision of any organ, authority or person in the Republic exercising executive power or any administrative function shall in any way be repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any of the provisions of this Constitution or any obligation imposed on the Republic as a result of its participation as a member state of the European Union. (Art. 179) - Greek1. Τηρουμένων των διατάξεων του άρθρου 1Α, το Σύνταγμα είναι ο υπέρτατος νόμος της Δημοκρατίας.
2. Ουδείς νόμος ή απόφασις της Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων ή εκατέρας Κοινοτικής Συνελεύσεων ως και ουδεμία πράξις ή απόφασις ιουδήποτε οργάνου, αρχής ή προσώπου εν τη Δημοκρατία ασκούντος εκτελεστικήν εξουσίαν ή οιονδήποτε διοικητικόν λειτούργημα δύναται να είναι καθ’ οιονδήποτε τρόπον αντίθετος ή ασύμφωνος προς οιανδήποτε των διατάξεων του Συντάγματος ή προς οποιαδήποτε υποχρέωση επιβάλλεται στη Δημοκρατία ως αποτέλεσμα της συμμετοχής της ως κράτους μέλους στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. (Αρθρον 179) - Turkish1. Madde 1A hükümleri saklı kalmak şartıyla, bu Anayasa Cumhuriyetin en yüksek kanunudur.
2. Temsilciler Meclisinin veya Cemaat Meclislerinden herhangi birinin hiçbir kanun veya kararı ve Cumhuriyet dâhilinde yürütme gücünü kullanan veya herhangi bir idari görev gören herhangi bir organ, makam veya şahsın hiçbir muamele veya kararı hiçbir suretle, bu Anayasa hükümlerinden herhangi birine ya da Avrupa Birliğine üye devlet olarak katılımının sonucu olarak Cumhuriyetin yüklendiği herhangi bir yükümlülüğe aykırı veya uyuşmaz olamaz. (Madde 179)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) Subject to subsection (2), all written laws in force immediately before the date of commencement of this Constitution (other than the laws referred to in Part C of this Chapter) shall continue in force as if they had been made under or pursuant to this Constitution, and shall be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with this Constitution.
… (Sec. 173) - iTaukei(1) Vakavo ke yalani ena wasetiki (2), na lawa tabaki taucoko e sa vakayagataki ni bera ni taurivaki na Yavunivakavulewa qo, (sega ni okati kina na lawa e vakamacalataki ena Tabana C ni Wase qo) ena taurivaki tiko me vaka ga e buli ena Yavunivakavulewa qo, ka me ra moici ka vakaibalebaletaki vakavinaka me veidonui kei na Yavunivakavulewa qo.
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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
- English(1) All citizens shall observe and implement the Constitution and the laws. They shall respect the rights and the legitimate interests of others.
(2) Obligations established by the Constitution and the law shall not be defaulted upon on grounds of religious or other convictions. (Art. 58) - Bulgarian(1) Гражданите са длъжни да спазват и изпълняват Конституцията и законите. Те са длъжни да зачитат правата и законните интереси на другите.
(2) Религиозните и другите убеждения не са основание за отказ да се изпълняват задълженията, установени в Конституцията и законите. (Чл. 58)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) This Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic and binds all persons and all State organs at both levels of government.
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(4) Any law, including customary law, that is inconsistent with this Constitution is void to the extent of the inconsistency, and any act or omission in contravention of this Constitution is invalid.
... (Art. 2) - Swahili(1) Katiba hii ni sheria kuu ya Jamhuri na inawafunga watu wote na vyombo vyote vya Serikali katika ngazi zote mbili za serikali.
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(4) Sheria yoyote, pamoja na sheria ya kijadi, ambayo inapingana na Katiba hii ni batili kwa kiwango cha kupingana, na kitendo chochote au uondoaji unaovunja Katiba hii ni batili.
... (Kifungu cha 2)