1.   The constitution permits the president to dissolve Parliament after consulting legislative leaders, as Chirac did this spring, but bars him from doing it again for a year.

2.   Indicating he believed the Khmer Nation Party should be accorded legal status, Hun Sen said the Cambodian constitution permits the establishment of political parties.

3.   It was closed on the grounds that the constitution does not permit higher-level education in a minority language.

4.   Only days after arguing that the constitution did not permit changing the date of legislative elections, the government has moved them back by two weeks.

5.   Reacting to the corruption allegations, Bucaram said the constitution does not permit bringing charges against those who have been deemed mentally unfit.

6.   The Macedonian government has banned the Tetovo university claiming that the constitution does not permit high-level education in any minority language.

7.   The Macedonian govrnment has banned the Tetovo university claiming that the constitution does not permit higher-level education in a minority language.

8.   The present constitution does not permit coalition governments.

9.   The Parliament Legal Affairs Commission also opposed the plan, saying the constitution only permits voluntary civic service.

10.   The present constitution does not permit coalition governments, and this is one of the articles advocates of pre-electoral reform want changed.