Word: versions
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...course, Harvard's student body does have on organized deliberative and representative body which could serve to be a conduit between undergraduates and the faculty and administration, a potential check, if you will. But Harvard's version of student government, the Undergraduate Council, plays no important role in University decisionmaking. Its statements on policy are largely ignored and its members are not included in any meaningful decisions. And because the University does not entrust the undergraduate government with any responsibility other than deciding how much money to spend on its own furniture, students do not take seriously their own representatives...
...creation of the multinational Soviet Union, gave individual states the right to secede -- a fiction that remains in the current text. The 1936 revision, known as the Stalin constitution, theoretically expanded personal freedoms at a time when the dictator's Great Terror was sweeping the country. The current version was adopted in 1977. One of its key changes: the right to sue the state, which has seldom been exercised but which Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to strengthen through a reform of the Soviet legal code...
...countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version. Those states range from the giant Soviet Union to the tiny Caribbean island country of Grenada. While Poland and France became the first to follow America's lead when they drafted modern constitutions in 1791, the largest impact has been recent. More than three-quarters of today's charters were adopted after World War II. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, could have been speaking for the rest of the Third World when he told the U.S. Congress...
...making of books about the Constitution there is no end, especially in this bicentenary year, when thousands of people from the President to the most unassuming kindergarten teacher are trying to define, not always with impartial clarity, the document's conception and meaning. But for an authentic and authoritative version of what the Constitution is about and how it got that way, it is hard to beat two of the original works written on the subject: James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, Madison and John Jay. Both...
...World: From giant India to tiny Grenada, more than 160 countries have written charters modeled on the U.S. version. Britain: For a unique set of reasons, an unwritten constitution rules the isles. Soviet Union: A basic law guaranteeing rights and freedoms is faithfully observed, but not when it clashes with the interests of the state...