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Constituent assembly

The Russian Constituent Assembly was established in Russia in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917 to form a new constitution after the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government.


Cheriya Konni

Cheriya Konni is a small village in the suburb of Trivandrum district of Kerala, India, located 14 km from the Kerala Constituent assembly and 15 km from the Secretariat.

Isidore Ramishvili

He briefly served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, but the Bolshevik October coup forced him to return to his native Georgia, where he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1919.

Jean Joseph Mounier

There, and in the Constituent Assembly, he was at first an upholder of the new ideas, pronouncing himself in favour of the union of the Third Estate with the two privileged orders, proposing the famous Tennis Court Oath, assisting in the preparation of the new constitution, and demanding the return of Jacques Necker.

Liberal democracy period in Indonesia

1959, 5 July: With armed forces support, Sukarno issues a decree dissolving the Constituent Assembly and reintroducing the Constitution of 1945 with strong presidential powers, and assumes the additional role of Prime Minister, which completes the structure of 'Guided Democracy'.

Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation malgache

At the first post-war constituent assembly convened in Paris in November 1945 to draft the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, Madagascar was represented by two doctors named Joseph Raseta and Joseph Ravoahangy.

Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

The group negotiated with the Gaviria administration from August 1990 to May 1991, leading to its demobilisation and simultaneous participation in the Constituent Assembly.


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All India Forward Bloc

Subsequently, a national council was held in Bauria, West Bengal, which reaffirmed the demand of boycotting the Constituent Assembly as well as issuing a decree that Bloc members of state legislatures would resign.

Bimalendra Nidhi

Nidhi is an elected member to the Constituent Assembly (Sambhidan Sabha) from Constituency Number 3 of Dhanusa District.

Bolivian Constituent Assembly of 2006–07

On December 8, 2007 the Constituent Assembly moved its sessions to Oruro, citing safety concerns.

Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs

The Constituent assembly of the party was held between the 7'th and the 13'th of September 1908 in Solun.

Cihad Baban

He was a member of the constituent assembly which wrote the 1961 Constitution of Turkey, and was Minister of Tourism and Promotion (January to August 1961) in the 1960-1 post-coup government of Cemal Gürsel.

Colombian Constitution of 1991

The presidents of the National Constituent Assembly were Alvaro Gómez Hurtado on behalf of the Conservative Party, Horacio Serpa from the Liberal Party and Antonio Navarro from the M-19 movement.

Constitution of India

The first temporary 2-day president of the Constituent Assembly was Dr Sachidanand Sinha.

Deepak Tripathi

His grandfather, Pandit Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi, was a prominent leader in India's independence movement, Member of the Constituent Assembly, and later of the Indian Parliament.

Deiva Zivarattinam

He was appointed to the provisional Constituent Assembly, that had been assembled by Charles de Gaulle in Algiers in November 1943.

On November 7, 1944 he moved to Paris to where the provisional Constituent Assembly had shifted.

Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid

On 25 August 1954 the plenary of the National Constituent Assembly approved the Legislative Act No. 3 which modified Article 171 of the Colombian Constitution of 1886, granting universal suffrage to all Colombian women.

Guáimaro Constitution

It was put under voting in Guáimaro on 10 April 1869, by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, President of the Constituent Assembly, and approved by the Deputies: Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Antonio Zambrana, Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, Jesús Rodríguez, Antonio Alcalá, José Izaguirre, Honorato Castillo, Francisco Sánchez, Antonio Lorda, Miguel Betancourt Guerra, Arcadio García, Tranquilino Valdés, Miguel Gerónimo Gutiérrez, and Eduardo Machado.

History of the Republic of Egypt

On 22 November 2012, Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi issued a declaration immunizing his decrees from challenge and seeking to protect the work of the constituent assembly drafting the new constitution.

Israeli legislative election, 1949

Suggestions were made of different Electoral Systems, but eventually it was decided to maintain the relative electoral system which existed in the elections for the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish community in British controlled Palestine, and that the Constituent Assembly elected would be the one to determine the future electoral system in Israel.

Jaime Hernández Méndez

Together with General Mejía Víctores as Chief of State and Minister of Defense and General Rodolfo Lobos Zamora as Sub Chief of State and Chief of General Staff of National Defense, General Hernández started the process for the return to democracy with elections for a Constituent Assembly in 1984 followed with free general elections in 1985.

Jean-François Rewbell

During the session of the Legislative Assembly, after the Constituent Assembly was dissolved in September of that year, he exercised the functions of procureur syndic, and was subsequently secretary-general of the département of Haut-Rhin.

Name of Argentina

Justo José de Urquiza deposed Rosas in the battle of Caseros and called for a Constituent Assembly that would write the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.

Patna College

Sachidanand Sinha, first President of the Indian Constituent Assembly (provisional).

Peter Anker

In 1814 he participated in the Meeting of Notables which preceded the Norwegian Constituent Assembly (however he was not a part of the Constituent Assembly).

Pierre Louis Roederer

After the close of the Constituent Assembly, he was elected, on 11 November 1791, procureur général syndic of the départment of Paris.

Pope Pius IX and France

In April 1849, General Oudinot's expeditionary force made its direct attack, and the Constituent Assembly in Rome passed a resolution of protest (7 May 1849), French President Louis Napoleon (the future Napoleon III of France) encouraged Pius IX and assured him of reinforcements from France.

The Mountain

After the February Revolution of 1848, the left wing faction in the Constituent Assembly elected that year was called "The Mountain." (see: The Mountain (1849)).

United Nations Security Council Resolution 67

The Resolution then called for the creation of a federal 'United States of Indonesia' in which elections for constituents to a constituent assembly would be completed by October 1949 and to whom the Netherlands would transfer sovereignty of Indonesia to by July 1950.