In the Constitution there was a religious authority above everything that could always block changes.

Second, your assertion that the Republicans blocked meaningful change is just plain wrong.

It will have the authority, for example, to block sackings and changes in the pattern of production.

But in retaining 45 percent of each system, the telephone company can block mergers and other major corporate changes.

A week before national elections, strong fears have surfaced in Haiti of a violent attempt to block democratic change.

By this plan, Transnistrian senators would be able to block changes to the constitution of the unified state.

Of these, half are large landowners and they have effectively blocked far-reaching changes in land ownership.

Now that such measures appear to have failed, industry officials doubt they can garner enough allies in Congress to block regulatory changes much longer.

They did not intend their loans to provide the Castros with the wherewithal to block similar changes at home.

New York remains a holdout, apparently because unionized court officers who profit from the law are able to block changes.