THE CONSTITUTION

The Constitution shall be amended at any IUS Congress by a majority of 2/3 of the total number of full and associate members of the IUS. Amendments to the Constitution may also be made by a referendum among full and associate members of the IUS and shall require the same majority. The by-law on "referendums" shall further detail this.

This Constitution shall be translated into the languages of all the countries having student organizations affiliated to the IUS. For purposes of interpretation, the official texts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish shall be authoritative.

NOTE: The above Constitution was duly ratified by an overwhelming majority of delegates at the World Student Congress on Tuesday, August 27, 1946.
From that date, it became operative. The Constitution was amended at the 3rd World Student Congress in 1953, the 4th World Student Congress in 1956, the 6th Congress of the IUS in 1960, the lOth Congress of the IUS in 1971, the 15th Congress of the IUS in 1987, and the IUS Extraordinary Congress in 1991.