Constitution In 36 editions of 36.

19 November 1976, effective 22 November 1976; revised February 1989

11 November 1975; revised 7 January 1978, 11 August 1980, and 6 March 1991

2 December 1990

March 1965, effective 30 September 1966

June 1991

13 March 1992 draft provides for establishment of plural political system

7 September 1980; amended 12 February 1981, December 1988, and 28 September 1990 (legalized opposition parties)

20 May 1972

21 November 1986

• 22 December 1989, suspended 3 December 1990;
• Provisional National Charter 1 March 1991;
• national conference drafting new constitution to submit to referendum January 1993

7 June 1992

• 24 June 1967, amended August 1974, revised 15 February 1978;
• amended April 1990;
• new constitution to be put to referendum in 1993

8 July 1979, currently being modified

3 November 1960

multiparty constitution approved in referendum September 1992

11 September 1971

new constitution 17 November 1991

transitional "constitution" decreed 19 May 1993

• none;
• constitution of 6 September 1968 was suspended on 12 April 1973;
• a new constitution was promulgated 13 October 1978, but has not been formally presented to the people

to be redrafted by 1993

21 February 1961, revised 15 April 1975

24 April 1970

new constitution approved 28 April 1992

23 December 1990 (Loi Fundamentale)

16 May 1984

12 December 1963, amended as a republic 1964; reissued with amendments 1979, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1991, and 1992

4 October 1966, suspended January 1970

6 January 1986

11 December 1969, amended 2 March 1977

12 September 1992

6 July 1964; republished as amended January 1974

new constitution adopted in constitutional referendum in January 1992

12 July 1991

12 March 1968

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

10 March 1972, revised in September 1992

30 November 1990

ratified 9 February 1990

December 1989 constitution revised November 1991 by National Democratic Reform Conference

1 October 1979, amended 9 February 1984, revised 1989

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

18 June 1991

1 January 1989

5 November 1975, approved 15 December 1982

3 March 1963, last revised in 1991

5 June 1979

note: new constitution now being drafted by multiparty conference, to take effect in mid-1993

1 October 1991; amended September 1991

25 August 1979, presidential approval 23 September 1979

3 September 1984

12 April 1973, suspended following coup of 6 April 1985; interim constitution of 10 October 1985 suspended following coup of 30 June 1989

15 March 1984 (Zanzibar has its own constitution but remains subject to provisions of the union constitution)

• 1980 constitution nullified during national reform conference;
• transition constitution adopted 24 August 1991;
• multiparty draft constitution sent to High Council of the Republic for approval in November 1991;
• adopted by public referendum September 1992

1 June 1959

8 September 1967, in process of constitutional revision

NA August 1991

21 December 1979

3 October 1985

Danish

16 June 1944, effective 17 June 1944

the old Communist-era constitution has been suspended; a new Islamic constitution has yet to be ratified

adopted NA April 1978; post-Soviet constitution not yet adopted

adopted NA April 1978; writing a new constitution mid-1993

4 November 1972, effective 16 December 1972, suspended following coup of 24 March 1982, restored 10 November 1986, amended NA March 1991

no written constitution or bill of rights

most recent promulgated 4 December 1982

adopted NA 1921; currently amending constitution for Parliamentary and popular review by late 1995

26 January 1950

3 May 1947

adopted 18 January 1993

adopted 1948, completely revised 27 December 1972, revised again in April 1992

25 February 1988

adopted 5 May 1993

4 June 1964

adopted 13 January 1992

9 November 1990

10 April 1973, suspended 5 July 1977, restored with amendments, 30 December 1985

adopted in 1978; a new constitution is in the process of being drafted

31 August 1978

as of mid-1993, a new constitution had not been formally approved

adopted 18 May 1992

new constitution adopted 8 December 1992

1 April 1982

1 November 1981

1 January 1986

10 July 1973

30 November 1966

21 September 1981

1 June 1977

1959, revised 1972

9 November 1949

24 February 1976

3 November 1978

28 November 1966

20 December 1983

19 December 1973

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

31 May 1985, effective 14 January 1986

note: suspended on 25 May 1993 by President SERRANO; reinstated on 5 June 1993 following ouster of president

• 27 August 1983, suspended February 1986;
• draft constitution approved March 1987, suspended June 1988, most articles reinstated March 1989;
• October 1991, government claims to be observing the Constitution

11 January 1982, effective 20 January 1982

6 August 1962

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

1 January 1960

29 December 1954, Statute of the Realm of the Netherlands, as amended

January 1987

11 October 1972; major reforms adopted April 1983

• ratified 3 March 1952;
• approved by US Congress 3 July 1952;
• effective 25 July 1952

19 September 1983

22 February 1979

27 October 1979

31 August 1976

introduced 30 August 1976, suspended in 1986, and a Constitutional Commission is currently reviewing its contents

Revised Organic Act of 22 July 1954

an interim basic law was approved by the People's Assembly on 29 April 1991; a new constitution was to be drafted for adoption in 1992, but is still in process

• Andorra's first written constitution was drafted in 1991;
• adopted 14 March 1993;
• to take effect within 15 days

1920; revised 1929 (reinstated 1945)

adopted NA April 1978

7 February 1831, last revised 8-9 August 1980; the government is in the process of revising the Constitution with the aim of federalizing the Belgian state

NA

adopted 12 July 1991

adopted on 2 December 1991

ratified 16 December 1992; effective 1 January 1993

5 June 1953

adopted 28 June 1992

Danish

17 July 1919

28 September 1958, amended concerning election of president in 1962, ammended to comply with provisions of EC Maastricht Treaty in 1992

23 May 1949, provisional constitution known as Basic Law

30 May 1969

11 June 1975

unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice

Apostolic Constitution of 1967 (effective 1 March 1968)

• 18 August 1949, effective 20 August 1949, revised 19 April 1972;
• 18 October 1989 revision ensured legal rights for individuals and constitutional checks on the authority of the prime minister and also established the principle of parliamentary oversight

29 December 1937; adopted 1937

1961, Isle of Man Constitution Act

1 January 1948

unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice

adopted NA May 1922, considering rewriting constitution

5 October 1921

adopted 25 October 1992

17 October 1868, occasional revisions

26 April 1974, effective 2 June 1974

• as of mid-1993 the new constitution had not been adopted;
• old constitution (adopted NA 1979) is still in effect but has been heavily amended during the past few years

17 December 1962

17 February 1983

adopted 17 November 1991, effective 20 November 1991

17 May 1814, modified in 1884

• interim "small constitution" came into effect in December 1992 replacing the Communist-imposed Constitution of 22 July 1952;
• new democratic Constitution being drafted

25 April 1976, revised 30 October 1982 and 1 June 1989

8 December 1991

8 October 1600; electoral law of 1926 serves some of the functions of a constitution

27 April 1992

ratified 3 September 1992; fully effective 1 January 1993

adopted 23 December 1991, effective 23 December 1991

6 December 1978, effective 29 December 1978

1 January 1975

29 May 1874

using 1978 pre-independence constitution; new consitution currently being drafted

unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice

26 May 1973, effective 6 December 1973

• 16 August 1960;
• negotiations to create the basis for a new or revised constitution to govern the island and to better relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots have been held intermittently;
• in 1975 Turkish Cypriots created their own Constitution and governing bodies within the "Turkish Federated State of Cyprus," which was renamed the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" in 1983;
• a new Constitution for the Turkish area passed by referendum in May 1985

2-3 December 1979; revised 1989 to expand powers of the presidency and eliminate the prime ministership

22 September 1968, effective 16 July 1970 (interim Constitution); new constitution drafted in 1990 but not adopted

no formal constitution; some of the functions of a constitution are filled by the Declaration of Establishment (1948), the basic laws of the parliament (Knesset), and the Israeli citizenship law

8 January 1952

16 November 1962 (some provisions suspended since 29 August 1962)

26 May 1926 (amended)

none

provisional constitution enacted 2 April 1970

none; governed according to Shari'a (Islamic law)

13 March 1973

7 November 1982

2 December 1971 (provisional)

16 April 1991

8 June 1968

amended British North America Act 1867 patriated to Canada 17 April 1982; charter of rights and unwritten customs

5 February 1917

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

17 September 1787, effective 4 June 1789

ratified 1966, in effect 1967

9 July 1900, effective 1 January 1901

4 August 1965

• 10 October 1970 (suspended 1 October 1987);
• a new Constitution was proposed on 23 September 1988 and promulgated on 25 July 1990;
• the 1990 Constitution is currently still under review (February 1993)