Historians may remember this postelection struggle as a great test of constitutional machinery, but in the moment, in the day-to-day thrust and parry, it is all exceedingly personal.

The constitutional machinery devised to bring the new constitution into force consisted of:

Although the constitutional machinery of the Republic was not irrevocably dismantled by the Lex Titia, in the event it never recovered.

State emergency is declared on failure of constitutional machinery in a state.

Again, in the 1560s, the Spanish Netherlands rose against the persecuting Catholic Habsburgs, using in justification their ancient constitutional machinery, and in defence of their traditional laws, customs and charters.

President's rule is enabled by Article 356 of the Constitution of India, which gives authority to impose it if there has been failure of the constitutional machinery in any state of India.

The Supreme Court said that Article 356 is an extreme power and is to be used as a last resort in cases where it is manifest that there is an impasse and the constitutional machinery in a State has collapsed.

He seems to suggest that the only reason the framers settled for all that creaky constitutional machinery was because there was no Internet back then to allow for instant referendums on what the government should do on the issue of the day.

At first, the revolutionaries used the constitutional machinery of the old confederal republic.

Articles 352 to 360 contain provisions which empower the Centre to take over the executive of the states on issues of national security or on the breakdown of constitutional machinery.