Against the odds, the delegates wrote a charter to that end.

"I know how to write such a charter," said Verily.

But the Framers in 1787 did not write a charter for self-destruction.

A special commission is elected to conduct the work of writing a new charter and submitting it to the voters for approval.

He is noted for writing a charter for the monastery of Drenča in 1382.

The United States has asked the Iraqi leaders to say how long it would take to write a charter and conduct elections, he said.

It was charged with writing a new charter and would meanwhile perform legislative and monitoring functions.

It took many forms, from requiring associations to have charters written in English to a ban on the use of German within the town limits.

But by June 1993, he had written a charter of human rights and set up an election, pushing Burundi into its brief moment of democracy.

The charter, written on vellum, is today in the Benedictine abbey of Pannonhalma.