A package of constitutional reforms proposed by the Constitutional Council was held in the Marshall Islands in April 1995. In 1994 the Nitijela voted to create a Constitutional Council which would propose a raft of constitutional changes and reforms. The Council submitted thirty-five proposals,[1] each of which had to attain a two-thirds majority of valid votes in order to pass. Turnout was low at 33%, and only a measure establishing the prevalence of the Marshallese language version of the constitution over the english one passed.[2] All other proposals failed to reach the two-thirds bar, and thus failed.

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  1. ↑ "Search result for "Marshall-Inseln"".
  2. ↑ "Marshall-Inseln, 17. April 1995 : Vorrang der marshallesischen Version der Verfassung -- [in German]".
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