31.   Four opposition leaders who sued for a delay in the election said the new constitution requires a minimum six-month lapse between electoral law changes and new elections.

32.   He said he would give the Socialists a green light to form a new government, as the constitution requires.

33.   Ireland is the only EU country whose constitution requires it to hold a public vote on the issue.

34.   Last Thursday, he took the first steps that the constitution requires for dissolving parliament, by sending letters to the heads of both chambers asking their opinions.

35.   Only if a second no-confidence motion were passed within three months would the constitution require the president either to replace the Cabinet or call new parliamentary elections.

36.   Only two senators have come out against a secret ballot and said the constitution requires an open voice vote.

37.   Only four senators have come out against a secret ballot and said the constitution requires an open voice vote.

38.   Previous constitutions did not require this.

39.   Rockingham County Superior Court Judge Richard Galway said the state constitution requires equal treatment of all taxpayers.

40.   She was briefly rehired after an opposition party leader claimed he had not been consulted, as the constitution requires.