Constitutional crisis
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In political science, a constitutional crisis is a problem or conflict in the function of a government that the political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to r
Patrice Lumumba
Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, addresses the crowd following the unilateral declaration of independence on 27 October.
The Electoral Commission was a panel that resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876.
Wallis Simpson
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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, was an American socialite and the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to E
Constitutional crisis
…its Conservative majority by appointing hundreds of new peers. The 1936 Edward VIII abdication crisis, when King Edward VIII proposed to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson against the advice of his ministers. This was unacceptable to the leaders of the United Kingdom and the dominions because Simpson was twice divorced…
Simpson, c. 1934
A six-month-old Wallis with her mother, Alice Warfield
Wallis as a ten-year-old schoolgirl
Wallis and her first husband, Earl W. Spencer, 1918