Sentences with phrase «constitution by the ordinary people»

After all, it was recognized and enshrined in our constitution by the ordinary people of this nation who gathered at the Consultative Assembly and drew up the 1992 constitution.

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First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.

However, the SCC qualified this statement by warning that «in the hardly conceivable case that the future dynamics of European Union law were deemed irreconcilable with the Spanish Constitution, without these hypothetical excesses of European law... being remedied through the ordinary processes provided for [by EU law],» the SCC may need to step up to guarantee «in the last resort the preservation of the sovereignty of the Spanish people and of the supremacy of the Spanish constituConstitution, without these hypothetical excesses of European law... being remedied through the ordinary processes provided for [by EU law],» the SCC may need to step up to guarantee «in the last resort the preservation of the sovereignty of the Spanish people and of the supremacy of the Spanish constitutionconstitution.»