Constitutional Crisis

List of constitutional crises

• The secession of the southern US states prior to the American Civil War.

• The King-Byng Affair of 1926 in Canada where Governor General Byng refused a request by Prime Minister Mackenzie King that Parliament be dissolved and new elections called. Instead, Byng dismissed King and appointed Arthur Meighen as Prime Minister.

• The parliamentary dispute of 1975 in Australia that saw Prime Minister Gough Whitlam fired by the nation's normally apolitical Governor General.

• The constitutional crisis of 1993 in Russia, a conflict between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Russian parliament which resulted in a military siege of the parliament building and street fighting which claimed 187 lives.

• The succession crisis of 2002 in Argentina. Following a massive economic meltdown, Argentina's president resigned, followed by a mass of cabinet members, leading five different men to reluctantly assume the presidency for extremely brief periods over the course of three weeks.

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