Location: Island nation in South Pacific Ocean
Population: 243,000
Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Date of Constitution: 1980, amended 1981 and 1983
Republic of Vanuatu. 1980. "Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu." Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Erma Vizenor is not exactly a revolutionary. But like America’s founders, she’s on a mission to ratify a new constitution in her homeland – the White Earth tribal nation. Most Americans don’t realize that tribes have their own constitutions, which set down rules for everything from tribal…
The Executive Session on American Indian Constitutional Reform is a national working group of constitutional reformers from 12 American Indian nations and leading academics. The Executive Session meets twice a year to rethink strategies for strengthening tribal constitutions and constitution-making…
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