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• ... that courts and legal scholars in some countries have expressed support for the idea that even a properly ratified constitutional amendment can be unconstitutional?

• ... that in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?

• ... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open Pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?

• ... that according to legal theorist Jiang Shigong, China has two constitutions?

• ... that according to Conor Gearty, private and public nuisance in English law "have little in common except the accident of sharing the same name"?

• ... that after a meeting in 1940, the English Judges' Council did not meet for another 10 years?

• ... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers of the Basic Law" in the Federal Republic of Germany, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights" in the 1949 constitution but was voted down?

Source

1. Template:Did you know nominations/Unconstitutional constitutional amendment (October 2019)
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions 219
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/July
4. Template:Did you know nominations/Jiang Shigong (August 2019)
5. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April
6. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January
7. Template:Did you know nominations/Frieda Nadig (February 2020)