Constitution In 36 editions of 36.

19 November 1976, effective 22 November 1976

11 November 1975; revised 7 January 1978 and 11 August 1980

23 May 1977 (nullified 1 March 1990); new constitution to be drafted by April 1990

March 1965, effective 30 September 1966

none; constitution of 27 November 1977 was abolished following coup of 25 November 1980

20 November 1981; suspended following the coup of 3 September 1987

7 September 1980, amended 12 February 1981 and December 1988

20 May 1972

21 November 1986

22 December 1989

1 October 1978, amended October 1982 and January 1985

24 June 1967, amended August 1974, revised 15 February 1978

8 July 1979

3 November 1960

partial constitution ratified January 1981 by the Chamber of Deputies

11 September 1971

15 August 1982

• 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

12 September 1987

21 February 1961, revised 15 April 1975

24 April 1970

24 September 1979; suspended 31 December 1981

14 May 1982, suspended after coup of 3 April 1984

16 May 1984

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

4 October 1966, suspended January 1970

6 January 1986

11 December 1969, amended 2 March 1977

21 December 1975

6 July 1964; republished as amended January 1974

2 June 1974, effective 19 June 1979; amended September 1981 and March 1985

• 20 May 1961, abrogated after coup of 10 July 1978;
• provisional constitution published 17 December 1980 but abandoned in 1981;
• new constitutional charter published 27 February 1985

12 March 1968

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

10 March 1972

25 June 1975

ratified 9 February 1990

adopted NA December 1989 after 15 years of military rule

1 October 1979, amended 9 February 1984, revised 1989

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

17 December 1978

1 January 1967

5 November 1975, approved 15 December 1982

3 March 1963, last revised in 1984

5 June 1979

14 June 1978

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)

30 December 1979, effective 13 January 1980

1 June 1959

8 September 1967, suspended following coup of 27 July 1985; in process of constitutional revision

25 August 1973

21 December 1979

3 October 1985

Danish

16 June 1944, effective 17 June 1944

adopted 30 November 1987

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

no written constitution or bill of rights

4 December 1982

26 January 1950

3 May 1947

adopted 1948, revised 27 December 1972

25 February 1988

4 June 1964

6 July 1960

16 December 1962

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

31 August 1978

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

27 August 1983, suspended February 1986; draft constitution approved March 1987, suspended June 1988, most articles reinstated March 1989

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 serves as the constitution

27 December 1976

none; some pareatges and decrees, mostly custom and usage

1920, revised 1929 (reinstated 1945)

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

16 May 1971, effective 18 May 1971

• 11 July 1960;
• amended in 1968 and 1970;
• new constitution under review (1 January 1990)

5 June 1953

Danish

17 July 1919

28 September 1958, amended concerning election of president in 1962

9 April 1968, amended 7 October 1974

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 and 18 October 1989

29 December 1937; adopted 1937

1961, Isle of Man Constitution Act

1 January 1948

unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice

5 October 1921

17 October 1868, occasional revisions

26 April 1974, effective 2 June 1974

17 December 1962

17 February 1983

17 May 1814, modified in 1884

the Communist-imposed Constitution of 22 July 1952 will be replaced by a democratic Constitution before May 1991

25 April 1976, revised 30 October 1982; new discussions on constitutional revision began October 1987

21 August 1965; new constitution being drafted

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

7 October 1977

6 December 1978, effective 29 December 1978

1 January 1975

29 May 1874

unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice

21 February 1974

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

22 September 1968, effective 16 July 1970 (interim Constitution); new constitution now in final stages of drafting

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 Sharia (Islamic law)

13 March 1973

7 November 1982

2 December 1971 (provisional)

28 December 1970, suspended 19 June 1974

31 October 1978

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); note--a new constitution was proposed on 23 September 1988 and awaits final approval

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

Organic Act of 1 August 1950

12 July 1979

1 May 1979

10 May 1979

29 January 1968

28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

• no formal, written constitution;
• consists of various documents, including certain acts of the UK and New Zealand Parliaments;
• Constitution Act 1986 was to have come into force 1 January 1987, but has not been enacted

no formal, written constitution

Norfolk Island Act of 1957

Covenant Agreement effective 3 November 1986

11 January 1981

16 September 1975

Local Government Ordinance of 1964

1 January 1962

7 July 1978

administered under the Tokelau Islands Act of 1948, as amended in 1970

4 November 1875, revised 1 January 1967

1 October 1978