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| | Hexapedia - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 |
 | | The Constitution was drafted through the 1890s and enacted in 1901, thus pre-dating Britain's Parliament Act, 1911, which enshrined this principle of the supremacy of the lower house in the British constitution. | | | At the time of the crisis, Senator Field was not able to attend the Senate as his appointment was under challenge in the High Court. | | | But it did lead to a constitutional change, passed by referendum in 1977, to require that State Premiers and Parliaments fill Senate vacancies with the nominee of the Party of the original holder of the seat. |
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| | Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net |
| | Valery Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, was forced to resign. | | | The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 began in earnest on September 21, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin violated the Constitution and dissolved the country's legislature (Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet), which was opposing his moves to consolidate power and push forward with unpopular neoliberal reforms. | | | The president could not be impeached for contravening the constitution. |
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