A constitutional referendum was held in South Korea on 21 November 1972. President Park Chung-hee had suspended the constitution and dissolved the National...

Park Chung Hee. On 21 November 1972, the Yushin Constitution was approved in the 1972 South Korean constitutional referendum with 92.3% of the vote and came...

country stable. On 21 November 1972, the Yushin Constitution was approved in the 1972 South Korean constitutional referendum with an implausible 92.3% of...

of government as the commander-in-chief of the South Korean military to declare war to hold referendums regarding issues of national importance to issue...

president for life. On 21 November 1972, the Yushin Constitution was approved in the 1972 South Korean constitutional referendum with 92.3% of the vote and came...

terms. The Fourth Republic of Korea was established by the 1972 constitutional referendum, with unlimited six year terms for the president. Park Chung...

the Korean War broke out. North Korea overran South Korea until US-led UN forces intervened. At the end of the war in 1953, the border between South and...

The Constitution of the Republic of Korea (Korean: 대한민국 헌법) is the supreme law of South Korea. It was promulgated on July 17, 1948, and last revised on...

proposal. This article summarises referendum laws and practice in various countries. On 19 March 2011 a constitutional referendum was held in Egypt, following...

Referendum in France Referendum in Ireland (10 Mai) Referendum in Norway 1972 Finnish parliamentary election 1972 West German federal election 1972 Gibraltar...

interpretations of the law. Specific examples include the South African Coloured vote constitutional crisis in the 1950s, the secession of the southern U.S...

national referendum. These rights have evolved significantly from the days of military dictatorship to the current state as a constitutional democracy...

Semi-parliamentary system Changed after the 2015 referendum. Was, previously, a parliamentary republic between 1972 and 1975. The Constitution of the Republic...

Struggle (Korean: 6월 민주 항쟁), also known as the June Democracy Movement and the June Uprising, was a nationwide pro-democracy movement in South Korea that generated...

Restoration self-coup four months earlier and pushed through a constitutional referendum which removed presidential term limits and gave him the power...

The October Yusin (Korean: 10월 유신; RR: Siwol Yusin) or October Restoration was an October 1972 South Korean self-coup in which President Park Chung Hee...

Canada 2009 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines constitutional referendum 2008 Tuvaluan constitutional referendum "We need to abolish the monarchy – because...

following the 2010 Kenyan constitutional referendum. Under the First and Second Republics, the National Assembly of South Korea was officially bicameral...

Kingdom of Bulgaria (1908–1946; ended by referendum) Union of South Africa (1910–1961; ended by referendum) Princedom of Montenegro (1852–1910); transformed...

again in 2020 and then submitted to referendum. In a ruling published on 9 January 2017, the 7th Constitutional Court of Lima ordered the RENIEC to recognize...

which decreed in 1972 an illegal 'temporary constitutional reform' which was supposed to be later ratified by an elected constitutional convetion which...

the threats of China and North Korea. A constitutional amendment would require a two-thirds majority and pass referendum to effect it (as per Article 96...

Supreme Council for National Reconstruction (Korean: 국가재건최고회의) was the ruling military junta of South Korea from May 1961 to December 1963. The Supreme...

From 1948 to 1972, the Dominion of Ceylon functioned as an independent constitutional monarchy in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head...

monarchs either lost their thrones through deposition by a coup d'état, by a referendum which abolished their throne, or chose to abdicate during the 20th century...

in favor of statehood, usually by referendum. Congress then directed that government to organize a constitutional convention to write a state constitution...

its independence in 2011, South Sudan adopted a presidential system. In 2018, after the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, Turkey adopted a presidential...

of the eight held, three were successful: in Ghana, in South Africa and the second referendum in Gambia. Referenda that rejected the proposal were held...

election to the party presidency and confirmed in office via an unopposed referendum. Under these provisions, Eyadéma was re-elected unopposed in 1979 and...

in 1994, South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations. An institutional referendum (Italian: referendum istituzionale, or referendum sulla forma...