Assertion: constitution | /r/CapableOf | take effect
Facets:
value: on august
type: TEMPORAL
value: on sept.
type: TEMPORAL
value: in all respects
type: OTHER
value: during the philadelphia convention
type: TEMPORAL
value: officially
type: MANNER
value: on october
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The Constitution would take effect once it had been ratified by nine of the thirteen state legislatures
text: The Constitution of the State of Alaska was ratified on April 4, 1956 and took effect with Alaska's admission to the United States as a U.S. state on January 3, 1959.
text: It took effect on October 5, 1867.
text: The Constitution officially took effect on Sept. 17, 1787, during the Philadelphia Convention and has been amended 27 times since its adoption.
text: The compensation of members of the Senate and General Assembly shall be fixed at the first session of the Legislature held after this Constitution takes effect, and may be increased or decreased by law from time to time thereafter, but no increase or decrease shall be effective until the legislative year following the next general election for members of the General Assembly.
text: The terms of office of the other judges shall be fixed by law and shall not be less than that fixed for the terms of office of a judge of the same or equivalent category existing when this Constitution takes effect.
text: All officers who are in office by election or appointment on the date this Constitution takes effect shall continue to hold their offices and to perform the functions thereof in a manner not inconsistent with this Constitution, unless the functions of their offices, are abolished or until their successors are selected and qualify in accordance with this Constitution and laws enacted pursuant thereto.
text: Notwithstanding the age limit fixed by this Constitution for compulsory retirement, all the judges of the courts of Puerto Rico who are holding office on the date this Constitution takes effect shall continue to hold their judicial offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were appointed, and in the case of Justices of the Supreme Court during good behavior.
text: The Legislative Assembly may enact the laws necessary to supplement and make effective these transitory provisions in order to assure the functioning of the government until the officers provided for by this Constitution are elected or appointed and qualify, and until this Constitution takes effect in all respects.
text: This Constitution shall take effect when the Governor so proclaims, but not later than sixty days after its ratification by the Congress of the United States.
text: Our Constitution was enacted (or put into law) by Parliament on March 29, 1976 by Act No. 4 of 1976 and took effect on August 1, 1976.