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News UK court rejects parental notification requirement for abortion counseling
UK court rejects parental notification requirement for abortion counseling
Tatyana Margolin
January 23, 2006 06:46:00 am

The UK High Court Monday rejected a review of guidelines that do not require parental consent for minors to receive contraception or abortion advice. Sue Axon of Manchester, a mother of...

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News EU breaching international terror law, claims Israel
EU breaching international terror law, claims Israel
Tatyana Margolin
December 12, 2005 09:38:00 am

An internal Israeli Foreign Ministry document disclosed Sunday claims that the European Union is breaching international laws against terrorism by permitting contact with the radical Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah in the course of monitoring the...

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News Belarus legislation to curb dissent condemned by rights groups, opposition
Belarus legislation to curb dissent condemned by rights groups, opposition
Tatyana Margolin
December 9, 2005 04:44:00 am

Opposition activists and human rights groups have condemned the restrictive amendments to Belarus' Criminal Code that were passed unanimously by the country's upper house of parliament. The Organization for Security and...

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News Rice letter instrumental in keeping US control over internet
Rice letter instrumental in keeping US control over internet
Tatyana Margolin
December 7, 2005 04:46:00 am

A letter from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have been instrumental in preventing the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society last month from making changes to the current control structure of the internet....

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News Former Yukos manager gets 14-year prison sentence for embezzlement
Former Yukos manager gets 14-year prison sentence for embezzlement
Tatyana Margolin
December 2, 2005 08:02:00 am

Alexei Kurtsin, former manager at Yukos-Moskva - the financial and management center for Russian oil company Yukos , was convicted on Thursday of embezzling and laundering funds and sentenced to 14 years in maximum-security prison. Kurtsin's sentence...

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News French court overturns pedophile convictions in botched case
French court overturns pedophile convictions in botched case
Tatyana Margolin
December 2, 2005 07:25:00 am

A Paris court on Thursday overturned the convictions of six people who were found guilty of pedophilia last year. The six, and several others, had been accused of raping their own and other children, after a...

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News Intergovernmental negotiating group named to revise UN reform agreement
Intergovernmental negotiating group named to revise UN reform agreement
Tatyana Margolin
August 27, 2005 01:08:00 pm

Responding to US-proposed changes to the draft agreement to be signed at next month's summit on UN reform , General Assembly President Jean Ping has named a core group of countries, including the US,...

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News US military releases 1,000 detainees from Abu Ghraib prison
US military releases 1,000 detainees from Abu Ghraib prison
Tatyana Margolin
August 27, 2005 12:36:00 pm

Over the past three days, some 1,000 detainees have been released from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the largest release to date, the US military announced Saturday. According to Central Command, the release "marks...

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News Death penalty opponents work to stop first Texas execution of black woman
Death penalty opponents work to stop first Texas execution of black woman
Tatyana Margolin
August 27, 2005 11:43:00 am

Supporters of Frances Newton , slated to become the first black woman executed in Texas since the state took over executions from county authorities in 1923, held protests Saturday while her attorneys fight a last-minute battle...

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News US lawyers seek longer sentence for ‘Millennium bomber’
US lawyers seek longer sentence for ‘Millennium bomber’
Tatyana Margolin
August 27, 2005 11:12:00 am

The US government has said that it will appeal a 22-year sentence given to Ahmed Ressam , an Algerian convicted of planning to kill travelers at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s eve in 1999....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Connecticut adopts first modern constitution

On January 14, 1639, the first written governmental constitution in modern history was adopted in the Colony of Connecticut. The Fundamental Orders represented the first time that a government was based upon a written constitution anywhere in the world. Along with the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders served as bases for the United States Constitution 150 years later, which in turn influenced the development of later constitutions throughout the world. Three hundred and twenty-six years after the original Fundamental Orders were adopted by Connecticut, the modern Constitution of Connecticut was ratified.

Guatemala constitution takes effect

On January 14, 1986, the current constitution of Guatemala took effect.

Read the Spanish-language text of the constitution, as amended in 1993.

First constitution adopted by Connecticut

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