BAUDOUIN I

(Baudouin)


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It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
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Do all have the freedom of conscience except the King?
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The Belgian parliament legalized abortion and under the constitution the King had to sign the legislation. But he, a Roman Catholic, opposed abortion:. A political solution was found whereby the cabinet declared him unable to govern for a day and assumed his powers to promulgate the bill.

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Baudouin I
  • Born: September 7, 1930
  • Died: July 31, 1993
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Baudouin was King of the Belgians from 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo.