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The Constitution is the main document of the state, which determines the order and principles of public administration, government agencies, the state, society, the rights and obligations of citizens.
December 8 - the day of the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, we have collected interesting facts about the constitutions of different countries around the world.
1. Many believe that the world’s first Constitution was drafted in the United States, but this is not the case. The oldest Constitution belongs to Poland. It was adopted in 1792.
2. The Constitution of the European Union was worked on by the most advanced experts in Europe. It was approved at a special EU summit in June 2004. The document was immediately translated into 20 languages and became the most comprehensive and versatile document in the world. However, this document did not contribute to the emergence of a pan-European opinion. European countries did not get enough votes in the national referendum.
3. In Israel, instead of a single Constitution, there is a set of basic laws. Because the country is too big to resolve the conflict between religious and secular laws within a single document.
4. The Constitution of India was adopted in 1950. It is the largest Basic Law in the world by size.
5. The Constitution of Japan has three main principles: the sovereignty of the people, respect for fundamental human rights, pacifism (renunciation of war as the sovereign right of the nation).
6. The peculiarity of the British Constitution is that there is no single document which can be called the basic law of the country.
7. The word "democracy" is not mentioned in the US Constitution. In addition, the document is a record-breaking 4,4 words.
8. The Constitution of the independent Republic of Uzbekistan was first adopted in the post-Soviet region.
9. Ecuador became the first country in the world to enshrine the right to nature in the Constitution.
10. The Constitution of Malta defines its country as neutral, striving for peace.
11. The text of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan consists of 7543 words. The word "republic" - 390, Uzbekistan - 354, law - 210, state - 98, law - 90, constitution - 70, citizen - 66, President - 62, Karakalpakstan - 33, person - 32, free (lik) - 27, people - 24, democracy - 7 times.
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