A constitution serves as the foundational legal document for any organized entity, whether it be a country, company, or organization. It's a collection of fundamental principles and established precedents that define how the entity will be governed. The constitution essentially lays out the rules of the game, dictating the powers and responsibilities of different parts of the entity and the rights of its members.
As late as 1900, the Sachsenspiegel, composed by Eike von Repgow between 1220 and 1230, was used as the supreme law in parts of Germany.
In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie I granted a modern-style Constitution to Ethiopia, replacing the Fetha Negest as the supreme law.
Romania's 1938 constitution, which installed a royal dictatorship, holds the record for the shortest overall process of drafting, adoption, and ratification of a national constitution, taking less than a month.
In 1946, during the drafting of Japan's Constitution, bureaucrats drafted everything in no more than a week.
In 1949, there was an official revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution.
Since 1950, the Basic Laws of Israel have been intended to be the basis for a constitution, but as of 2017 it had not been drafted.
In 1971, there was an official revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution.
In 1982, the Canada Act formally severed the British Parliament's ability to amend the Canadian constitution, and the Canadian constitution includes specific legislative acts as mentioned in section 52(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982.
In 1982, there was an official revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution.
Over a century after its enactment, the British North America Act was patriated to the Canadian Parliament in 1982 and augmented with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Constitution of Australia is supplemented with the Australia Act 1986, a statute of constitutional significance.
In 1988, Siriman Kouyaté reconstructed the Kouroukan Founga, a 13th-century charter of the Mali Empire, from oral tradition.
In 1999, there was an official revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution.
The Myanmar 2008 Constitution was secretly drafted for more than 17 years.
In 2009, a study revealed that the average time for drafting a constitution is around 16 months, although there were extreme cases registered.
In 2011, the U.K. Fixed-term Parliaments Act was legislated by a simple majority for strictly fixed-term parliaments.
As of 2017, only two sovereign states, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, have wholly uncodified constitutions.
Around 2050 BC, the Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur, the oldest known document of written laws, was created.
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