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Last week, the Prime Minister of Jamaica announced my appointment to the new 14-member Constitutional Reform Committee that will advise on creating a homegrown Constitution for the country. The Committee is chaired by the Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs and co-chaired by the Ambassador Plenipotentiary with Responsibility for National Strategic Initiatives. The Committee's first step is to plan Jamaica's historic transition from constitutional monarchy to constitutional republic. Here we are, pictured above at Jamaica House, with the Prime Minister seated in the middle.

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If your jurisdiction has held a referendum on becoming a republic, I would be very interested to learn about the text of the final ballot question. Thank you in advance for your help! 

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Thank you to all who joined us at the 2023 Global Summit on Constitutionalism on March 16-18. We will soon share details about the next edition. For now, here are some of the sights seen at the 2023 Global Summit.

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Earlier this month, I traveled to Lisbon for an international conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the Constitutional Court of Portugal. I spoke on a panel on "The Future of Constitutionalism," featuring Maria Lúcia Amaral, Mattias Kumm, and Martin Loughlin. My lecture was entitled “The Corrosion of Written Constitutions.” The conference was held in the marvelous library of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, seen below on the day of my lecture.

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