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Constitution Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (202 words) |
 | Constitution Day is a holiday to honour the constitution of a country. |
 | Constitution Day is often celebrated on the anniversary of the signing, promulgation or adoption of the constitution, or in some cases, to commemorate the change to constitutional monarchy: |
 | Independence Day (United States), to commemorate the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776), not the U.S. Constitution. |
| Norway Info - Articles - Constitution Day (2694 words) |
 | In 1380 Norway and Denmark were united under the same king, a union which eventually led to Norway's being integrated in a Danish-Norwegian single unified state with Denmark as the realm's dominant partner and Copenhagen as the unchallenged capital of the kingdom. |
 | But the constitutional form of the Kingdom was in all main respects such as was laid down in the Constitution of 17 May, and the union with Sweden was so loose that it could be dissolved in 1905 without either kingdom being seriously affected as a result. |
 | The day was no longer regarded as a day of national unity, but a day of strife, when conservatives and liberals voiced their political standpoints in town after town, each with their own 17th of May speakers and their own 17th of May processions. |