Louis and his minister decided in 1663 to give New France a new constitution.

Many European leaders are now calling for reform that would make the European Union more democratic and perhaps give it a constitution.

By 1967, Mobutu had consolidated his rule and proceeded to give the country a new constitution and a single party.

On January 1, 1840, the city was given a new municipal constitution which was expanded on March 4, 1857.

In 1969 Britain gave Gibraltar a new constitution.

Give them a constitution where only men of property can vote.

He had a vague idea of inducing the king to give his people a parliament and a constitution, as other monarchies had done.

To help us do this, the Convention will, moreover, give us a constitution within the institutional framework.

People cannot be given a constitution without permission being asked of them.

There is, of course, one discordant note: the mechanism for giving the European Union a new formal constitution has jammed.