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    Constitution of Malta (Maltese: Konstituzzjoni ta' Malta) was adopted as a legal order on 21 September 1964, and is the self-declared supreme law of the...
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    Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, and commonly known...
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    Colony of Malta became independent under the Malta Independence Act 1964 (c. 86) passed by the British Parliament. Under the new Constitution of Malta, approved...
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    Representatives of Malta, which appoints the president for a five-year term and requires them to swear an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. The...
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    The politics of Malta takes place within a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president of Malta is the constitutional...
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    Malta (/ˈmɒltə/ MOL-tə, /ˈmɔːltə/ MAWL-tə, Maltese: [ˈmɐːltɐ]), officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the...
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    The prime minister of Malta (Maltese: Prim Ministru ta' Malta) is the head of government, which is the highest official of Malta. The prime minister chairs...
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    head of state under the Constitution of Malta was the queen of Malta, Elizabeth II – who was also simultaneously the queen of the United Kingdom and the...
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    The flag of Malta (Maltese: Il-Bandiera ta' Malta) is a bicolour, with white in the hoist and red in the fly. A representation of the George Cross, awarded...
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    Parliament and the approval of a new Maltese constitution by 54.5% of voters in a referendum, the State of Malta (Maltese: Stat ta’ Malta) was formed on 21 September...
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    Malta has two official languages: Maltese and English. Maltese is the national language. Until 1934, Italian was also an official language in Malta, and...
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    Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies (commonly known as the Crown Colony of Malta or simply Malta) was the British colony in the Maltese islands...
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    religion in Malta. The Constitution of Malta establishes Catholicism as the state religion, and it is also reflected in various elements of Maltese culture...
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    defined by the Constitution of Malta as a hierarchical system of courts, with a Constitutional Court, separate Civil and Criminal Courts of original jurisdiction...
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    Retrieved 8 August 2022. "Act. LVIII of 1974 – Constitution of Malta (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1974". Constitution of Malta. 13 December 1974. Archived from...
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  • of which were elected in the 13 districts, and 14 of which received a seat per the provisions laid out in the Constitution of Malta: Article 52(A) of...
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    "L-Innu Malti" ("The Hymn of Malta") is the national anthem of Malta. It is written in the form of a prayer to God. Officially adopted in 1964 upon independence...
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    The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language and share a common culture and Maltese history...
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    the Maltese people and is the national language of Malta, and the only official Semitic and Afroasiatic language of the European Union. Maltese is a...
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    Malta was the third European member state of the Non-Aligned Movement (after charter members of Cyprus and SFR Yugoslavia) joining it in 1973. The country...
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  • Communist Party of Malta (Maltese: Partit Komunista Malti) is a communist party in Malta. PKM was founded in 1969 at a secret congress in the town of Gwardamangia...
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  • is a list of national constitutions by country, semi-recognized countries, and by codification. A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained...
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    the Republic of Malta. On 13 December 1974, the constitution of Malta revised, which resulted in the transforming the State of Malta into a republic,...
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    previously located on Malta. Neutrality is entrenched in the Constitution of Malta, which provides as follows, at section 1(3): Malta is a neutral state...
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    Maltese nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of Malta. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Maltese...
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    Times of Malta. Retrieved 2018-05-02. "Constitution of Malta". Wikisource. Retrieved 2023-04-11. Electoral Commission Department of Information - Malta Malta...
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    Nationalist Party) sought to amend the Constitution of Malta to include a prohibition on abortion. As it stands, the Constitution states, in article 33(1) that...
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    Malta is for non-local government purposes divided into districts as opposed to the local government localities. The three main types of such districts...
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    The Nationalist Party (Maltese: Partit Nazzjonalista, PN) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Labour Party...
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     Malta: Article 2 of the Constitution of Malta declares that "the religion of Malta is the Catholic and Apostolic Religion".  Monaco: Article 9 of the...
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