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Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe treaties in which constitutional provisions are restricted or affected in any manner may not be ratified, unless the ratification is conducted with the corresponding reservations. The provisions of the treaty concerning which the reservations are made are not law of the Republic. (Art. 145)
- SpanishNo se podrán ratificar los tratados en que se restrinjan o afecten de alguna manera las disposiciones constitucionales, a menos que la ratificación se haga con las reservas correspondientes. Las disposiciones del tratado sobre las cuales se hagan las reservas no son ley de la República. (Art. 145)
Status of the Constitution
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X. Laws and other normative acts or individual provisions of such acts or intergovernmental treaties of the Republic of Azerbaijan shall cease to apply at the time which is indicated in the decision of the Constitutional Court that declares them to be inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan; inter-state treaties of the Republic of Azerbaijan which are declared unconstitutional shall not come into effect. (Art. 130) - Azerbaijani...
X. Qanunlar və digər aktlar yaxud onların ayrı-ayrı müddəaları, Azərbaycan Respublikasının hökumətlərarası müqavilələri Azərbaycan Respublikası Konstitusiya Məhkəməsinin qərarında müəyyən edilmiş müddətdə qüvvədən düşür, Azərbaycan Respublikasının dövlətlərarası müqavilələri isə qüvvəyə minmir. (Maddə 130)
Status of the Constitution
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An international obligation shall not endanger the democratic foundations of the Constitution. (Sec. 94) - Finnish…
Kansainvälinen velvoite ei saa vaarantaa valtiosäännön kansanvaltaisia perusteita. (94 §) - Swedish…
En internationell förpliktelse får inte äventyra konstitutionens demokratiska grunder. (94 §)
Status of the Constitution
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3. Customary international law, unless inconsistent with this Constitution or an Act of Parliament, shall form part of the law of the Republic. (Sec. 211)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishFirst: This Constitution is the preeminent and supreme law in Iraq and shall be binding in all parts of Iraq without exception.
Second: No law that contradicts this Constitution shall be enacted. Any text in any regional constitutions or any other legal text that contradicts this Constitution shall be considered void. (Art. 13) - Arabicاولاً :ـ يُعدُ هذا الدستور القانون الاسمى والاعلى في العراق، ويكون ملزماً في انحائه كافة، وبدون استثناء.
ثانياً :ـ لا يجوز سن قانونٍ يتعارض مع هذا الدستور، ويُعد باطلاً كل نصٍ يرد في دساتير الاقاليم، او أي نصٍ قانونيٍ آخر يتعارض معه. (المادّة 13)
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.
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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
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(3) The State shall have the right to use coercion in order to enforce the Fundamental Law and the laws. (Foundation, Art. C) - Hungarian…
(3) Az Alaptörvény és a jogszabályok érvényre juttatása érdekében kényszer alkalmazására az állam jogosult. (Alapvetés, C) cikk)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) This Constitution is the supreme law of Tuvalu and, subject to subsection (2), any act (whether legislative, executive or judicial) that is inconsistent with it is, to the extent of the inconsistency, void.
(2) All other laws shall be interpreted and applied subject to this Constitution, and, as far as is practicable, in such a way as to conform with it. (Sec. 3)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishIn matters brought before them for decision, the courts shall not apply laws or principles that are contrary to the Constitution. (Art. 213)
- PortugueseNos feitos submetidos a julgamento os tribunais não podem aplicar leis ou princípios que ofendam a Constituição. (Art. 213)
Status of the Constitution
- English1. The Constitution shall have supreme legal force and direct application in the Kyrgyz Republic.
2. The Constitution shall serve the basis for the adoption of constitutional laws, laws as well as other regulatory legal acts.
… (Art. 6) - Russian1. Конституция имеет высшую юридическую силу и прямое действие в Кыргызской Республике.
2. На основе Конституции принимаются конституционные законы, законы и другие нормативные правовые акты.
... (Статья 6) - Kyrgyz1. Конституция эң жогорку юридикалык күчкө ээ жана ал Кыргыз Республикасында түздөн-түз колдонулат.
2. Конституциянын негизинде конституциялык мыйзамдар, мыйзамдар жана башка ченемдик укуктук актылар кабыл алынат.
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