Sentences with phrase «american constitutional traditions»

On a comparative level I found it interesting that they quote Lord Steyn and mention both the Canadian and American constitutional traditions, (though not the Australian), but all the cases cited are from the Indian Supreme Court itself.

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Powell a Christian, points out in The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism that constitutional rhetoric «is a language of permanence, of settled decision, of absolute political value».

The time is ripe for Americans to reconsider the advantages of crowns — or at least, to reflect on what we might be able to learn from constitutional monarchies and the longstanding traditions of England's kings and queens.

And recall as well that the judicial creation of this test (to parallel the express provision in section 1 of the Charter) has been critiqued for being inconsistent with the structure of the Constitution Act 1982 as well as ignoring aboriginal sovereignty and the limitations already placed on aboriginal rights by indigenous laws and traditions (see e.g. John Borrows, «Frozen Rights in Canada: Constitutional Interpretation and the Trickster» (1997/98) 22 American Indian L Rev 37 at 59).