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Constitutions are supposed to be the ultimate guarantor of citizens’ rights, but cunning leaders in the former Soviet Union often manipulate them for their own ends, not the people’s.
The most egregious manipulation of the constitutional-revision process is changing the document to allow a leader to stay in office longer, so he has more time to feed at the public trough.
Take the Russian Constitution, for example.
The document, which was created in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, hasn’t been amended a lot.
But the practical effect of one of those revisions — in …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
