11.  As prime minister, Chernomyrdin already runs the daily affairs of state and has the strongest constitutional position.

12.  Excluding a popular independent candidate from the elections is not consistent with the MPRs constitutional position -- it is the institutional embodiment of popular sovereignty.

13.  After announcing their ceasefire Thursday, loyalists said they had come to the decision after having received guarantees about the constitutional position of Northern Ireland as part of Britain.

14.  At talks last month the ANC and IFP took the first step to resolve the constitutional dispute and exchanged documents detailing their constitutional positions.

15.  The NP is also considering adopting constitutional positions far removed from those of the majority ANC.

16.  Robert Blake, an authority on the constitutional position of the monarchy, said change was not necessarily needed.

17.  She refused to elaborate, or to comment on a newspaper report that fundamental changes in the constitutional position of the monarchy were under study.