constitution

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He said he isn’t keen on revising the constitution, however, believing it would risk weakening Japan’s commitment to military action only in self-defense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to boost Japan’s defense spending and revise its pacifist constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

In the early 1980s, Canada was seeking to repatriate its constitution from the United Kingdom and to incorporate a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, similar to the US Bill of Rights.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

And it would write all of this into the state constitution, which could be changed only with another ballot measure like the last one.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

It was, he warned, “the first symptom of a spirit which must either be killed or will kill the constitution of the United States.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis