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  French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, passed on 12 July 1790 (although not signed by the king until 26 December 1790), turned the remaining clergy into employees of the State and required that they take an oath of loyalty to the constitution.
The Convention approved the new "Constitution of the Year III" on 17 August 1795; a plebiscite ratified it in September; and it took effect on 26 September 1795.
The new régime met with opposition from remaining Jacobins and the royalists.
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 Egypt - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The sultan Ahmed Fuad became King Fuad I. In April 1923 the constitution of the kingdom of Egypt as a hereditary constitutional monarchy was proclaimed.
The same year the presidency was strengthened by a new constitution, and Nasser was elected president, unopposed.
In 1971 the country's first permanent constitution was introduced, containing measures of liberalization, in particular in the field of civil rights.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Egypt   (7147 words)

  
 Chile - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A new Constitution was approved by a highly irregular and undemocratic plebiscite characterized by the absence of registration lists, on September 11, 1980, and General Pinochet became President of the Republic for an 8-year term.
Chile's Constitution was approved in a tightly controlled national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of Augusto Pinochet.
After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the Constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution.
www.voyager.in /Chile   (5367 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Napoleon Bonaparte
Another painful impression was produced at the Vatican by the attitude of eight constitutional priests whom Bonaparte had nominated to bishoprics, and to whom Caprara had granted canonical institution, and who afterwards boasted that they had never formally abjured their adhesion to the Civil Constitution of the clergy.
In retaliation, the Roman curia demanded of the constitutional parish priests a formal retractation of the Civil Constitution, but Bonaparte opposed this and when Caprara insisted, declared that if Rome pushed matters too far the consuls would yield to the desire of France to become Protestant.
On the other hand, the constitution of the Imperial University (May, 1806), preparing for a state monopoly of teaching, loomed up as a peril to the Church's right of teaching, and gave the Holy See another cause for uneasiness.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10687a.htm   (11576 words)

  
 TermPapers-TermPapers.com - The French Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It stated that nobility was to be abolished, and that France was to be made a limited monarch, with a one-house legislature.
At first he said that he would obey the new constitution that was forced upon him in 1791, even though it gave him limited power.
The Convention wrote it’s third constitution since 1789, the second to be put in power.
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