12 Facts About Constituent assembly

Constituent assembly is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.

Unlike forms of constitution-making in which a constitution is unilaterally imposed by a sovereign lawmaker, the constituent assembly creates a constitution through "internally imposed" actions, in that members of the constituent assembly are themselves citizens, but not necessarily the political leaders, of the country for which they are creating a constitution.

The Constituent assembly has gender parity and has 17 seats reserved for people belonging to indigenous peoples.

The Constituent assembly is granted 12 months to draft a new constitution, which has to be ratified by referendum once written, with compulsory voting.

The constituent assembly met at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen and first met on 23 October 1848.

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The Constituent assembly was overall split in three different groupings: the National liberals, the Friends of Peasants, and the Conservatives.

On 25 May 1849, the constituent assembly approved the new constitution, and on 5 June 1849 it was signed by King Frederick VII.

The constituent assembly was elected indirectly by the members of the Provincial legislative assembly, which existed under the British Raj.

Once the Constitution took effect, the Constituent Assembly became the Provisional Parliament of India.

Voters chose Republic, and the new Constituent assembly had the task to approve the new republic governments, as well as to write a new constitution.

Congress then created a provisional government, called the Triumvirate, and enacted the Constituent assembly Act of the Mexican Federation, by which the former Provinces of Mexico were transformed into free and sovereign States.

Russian Constituent Assembly was established in Russia in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917 to form a new constitution after the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government.