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Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe provisions of the Constitution are fundamental legal rules binding upon legislative, executive and judicial organs, and administrative authorities and other institutions and individuals.
Laws shall not be contrary to the Constitution. (Art. 11) - TurkishAnayasa hükümleri, yasama, yürütme ve yargı organlarını, idare makamlarını ve diğer kuruluş ve kişileri bağlayan temel hukuk kurallarıdır.
Kanunlar Anayasaya aykırı olamaz. (Madde 11)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishI. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is an autonomous State which forms part of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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IV. The Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan are binding in the territory of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.
V. The Constitution and laws of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic must not contradict the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic must not contradict the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
… (Art. 134) - AzerbaijaniI. Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası Azərbaycan Respublikasının tərkibində muxtar dövlətdir.
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IV. Azərbaycan Respublikası Konstitusiyası, qanunları, Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin fərmanları və Azərbaycan Respublikası Nazirlər Kabinetinin qərarları Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikasının ərazisində məcburidir.
V. Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası Ali Məclisinin qəbul etdiyi Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikasının Konstitusiyası və qanunları müvafiq olaraq Azərbaycan Respublikasının Konstitusiyasına və qanunlarına; Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikasının Nazirlər Kabinetinin qəbul etdiyi qərarlar Azərbaycan Respublikası Konstitusiyasına, qanunlarına, Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin fərmanlarına, Azərbaycan Respublikası Nazirlər Kabinetinin qərarlarına zidd olmamalıdır.
… (Maddə 134)
Status of the Constitution
- English
There shall be no appeal against a decision of the Constitutional Court; this however does not apply if due to a decision by a body of an international organization set up to ensure the observance of international agreements binding for the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Republic has the obligation in proceedings before the Constitutional Court to reopen a final decision of the Constitutional Court. (Art. 133)
- Slovak
Proti rozhodnutiu ústavného súdu nemoţno podať opravný prostriedok; to neplatí ak rozhodnutím orgánu medzinárodnej organizácie zriadeného na uplatňovanie medzinárodnej zmluvy, ktorou je Slovenská republika viazaná, vznikne Slovenskej republike povinnosť v konaní pred ústavným súdom znovu preskúmať uţ prijaté rozhodnutie ústavného súdu. (Čl. 133)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishIf the Constitutional Court consulted by the President of the Republic, by the Prime Minister, the President of the National Assembly or the President of the Senate, by a tenth of the Deputies or a tenth of the Senators, declares that an international treaty or agreement includes a clause contrary to the Constitution, the ratification or approval may only intervene after the revision of the Constitution. (Art. 216)
- FrenchSi la Cour constitutionnelle consultée par le Président de la République, par le Premier ministre, le Président de l’Assemblée nationale ou le Président du Sénat, par un dixième des députés ou un dixième des sénateurs, déclare qu’un traité ou accord international comporte une clause contraire à la Constitution, la ratification ou l’approbation ne peut intervenir qu’après la révision de la Constitution. (Art. 216)
Status of the Constitution
- English
(1) The existing law shall continue to be in force but shall be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring it into conformity with sections 12 to 235 of this Constitution.
(2) For the purpose of this section “existing law” means a law that
(a) was enacted or made before 30th November, 1966 and has continued to be part of the law of Barbados at all times since that day;
(b) re-enacted a law that was enacted or made before 30th November, 1966 without alteration; or
(c) altered a law that was enacted or made before 30th November, 1966 and does not thereby render that law inconsistent with sections 12 to 23 of this Constitution in a manner in which, or to an extent to which, it was not previously so inconsistent.
… (Sec. 26)
Status of the Constitution
- English1. The Constitution is the fundamental and supreme law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
All other legal documents must conform to the Constitution.
All violations of the Constitution shall be dealt with.
2. The National Assembly and its agencies, the President, the Government, People’s Courts, People’s Procuracies, other agencies of the State and all the People shall defend the Constitution.
The mechanism to defend the Constitution shall be prescribed by a law. (Art. 119) - Vietnamese1. Hiến pháp là luật cơ bản của nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam, có hiệu lực pháp lý cao nhất.
Mọi văn bản pháp luật khác phải phù hợp với Hiến pháp.
Mọi hành vi vi phạm Hiến pháp đều bị xử lý.
2. Quốc hội, các cơ quan của Quốc hội, Chủ tịch nước, Chính phủ, Tòa án nhân dân, Viện kiểm sát nhân dân, các cơ quan khác của Nhà nước và toàn thể Nhân dân có trách nhiệm bảo vệ Hiến pháp.
Cơ chế bảo vệ Hiến pháp do luật định. (Điều 119)
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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༽
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishEveryone is obliged to strictly abide by the Constitution of Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine, and not to encroach upon the rights and freedoms, honour and dignity of other persons.
… (Art. 68) - UkrainianКожен зобов'язаний неухильно додержуватися Конституції України та законів України, не посягати на права і свободи, честь і гідність інших людей.
... (Стаття 68)
Status of the Constitution
- English…
3. This Constitution is the supreme law of the country and the source of all laws of the State, and all laws, orders and acts contrary to its letter and spirit shall be null and void. 4. All organs of the State, all public and private associations and institutions and all citizens shall be bound by and remain loyal to the Constitution and shall ensure its observance. 5. This Constitution shall serve as a basis for instilling constitutional culture and for enlightening citizens to respect fundamental human rights and duties. (Art. 2)
Status of the Constitution
- English…
The exercise of sovereignty recognizes as a limitation the respect for the essential rights which emanate from human nature. It is the duty of the organs of the State to respect and promote those rights, guaranteed by this Constitution, as well as by the international treaties ratified by Chile and which are in force. (Art. 5) - Spanish…
El ejercicio de la soberanía reconoce como limitación el respeto a los derechos esenciales que emanan de la naturaleza humana. Es deber de los órganos del Estado respetar y promover tales derechos, garantizados por esta Constitución, así como por los tratados internacionales ratificados por Chile y que se encuentren vigentes. (Art. 5)