As Speaker Om Birla faces a no-confidence vote, it is worth recalling how carefully Parliament has exercised this power ...

Barely sworn in by Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the new IGP inaugurated a seven-member committee to oversee the implementation of state police in Nigeria. It was an act both symbolic and substantive; symbolic ...

That’s why I grimaced when, in his first public remarks since the beginning of the attack on Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Monday, “President Trump and I have your back always, ...

The prohibition in the amendment clause is on extending term limits for the incumbent. It is not on redesigning executive selection through borrowing from SA, unless explicitly entrenched. The ...

Congress is the first article in the Constitution, but the president has command-and-control authority over all these people, people with guns. It’s always out there as a possibility that orders are ...

As the United States and Israel attack Iran’s clerical leadership with the hope of effecting regime change, they should keep in mind one crucial, often misunderstood element: About half of Iran’s ...

The Constitution of India, while federal in structure, was designed with a pronounced centralising bias. Drawing heavily from the Government of India Act, 1935, it concentrated significant authority ...

Stamp duty occupies a distinctive place in India’s constitutional scheme, in that it is neither purely central nor merely incidental. The Constitution carefully distributes legislative competence over ...

A state lawmaker moved to enshrine the Maryland flag’s current design into the state constitution after the governor described it as a “contradiction.” ...

The author is an editorial writer at the JoongAng Ilbo. In April 2015, after a division of the Seoul Southern District Court sought constitutional review of a provision of the Private School Teachers’ ...

If you want to understand how democracies corrode, don’t start with tanks in the streets. Start with paperwork—drafted “orders,” pseudo-legal memos, and the reassuring claim that extraordinary power ...

If you want to understand how democracies corrode, don’t start with tanks in the streets. Start with paperwork—drafted “orders,” pseudo-legal memos, and the reassuring claim that extraordinary power ...