An eternity clause is a colloquial term for a legal provision aiming to ensure that a constitution or basic law cannot be changed by subsequent legal amendments. Eternity clauses are a type of entrenched clause, and exist in the constitutions of the Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Morocco and Norway.
The Constitution of India and the Constitution of Colombia contain similar provisions aimed at making it difficult, but not impossible, to change their basic structure.
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Famous quotes containing the words eternity and/or clause:
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there. For there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Long ago I added to the true old adage of “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business,” another clause which, I think, more than any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody’s business is my business.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)