Show Absolute Monarchy Now Nov Constitutional Ethiopia on one of the e last absolute monarchies in the world is to have hae havea haea a written constitution A voluntary decree o of Emperor Halle Haile Selassie ruler rul er of this isolated African mountain kingdom recently ordered the Institution ution of a two-chamber two parliament and a fundamental code of laws Emperor Emperor Em Selassie will remain the head of or the state but will wm goven soyen Ethiopia Ethiopian in n conformity with the constitution Constitutions or guarantees o of fundamental law and principles are nothing new in the light of history The United States is often regarded as is the originator of the device ice but buthe the he Greeks had a series of ot state city constitutions in number three centuries before the birth of Christ Emperor Justinian used the word for fora a code of Roman laws compiled durIng dur dur- in Ing ng his reign Today practically every country in inthe inthe the he civilized world has a constitution ion tion o of some sone sort altho although h nine- nine tenths of them are less than 50 years ears old All the Important countries of the he world except England have written written writ- writ ten en constitutions In effect England has hIlS a n. constitution because the courts and nd parliament recognize a n. general generali series erles of fundamental laws often referred re re- erred to as constitutional law which In effect are similar to the written constitutions of other lands The colonies and self governing dominions dominions do minions of ot the British commonwealth nearly all have written constitutions World wide adoption of written constitutions followed many changes in n government after the world war Soviet Russia adopted a a. constitution on n Marxian Max principles in 1918 Other Oth- Oth er cr r countries whose people received constitutions or radical changes In ine e existing constitutions since the world war Include Afghanistan Albania Al Al- bania anla China Finland Lithuania Egypt Latvia Germany German Irish rish Free State Free City of DanIg Danzig Dan Dan- zig Ig Hungary Poland CzechoSlovakia Czecho va kia Austria Greece Turkey Ice Ice- Ice Ice-I land and Iraq and Spain I |