Sentences with phrase «constitutional reform processes»

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

And the Close the Gap Campaign holds many lessons for the constitutional reform process ahead of us.

High - profile ambassadors can play a role in keeping the constitutional reform process in the public spotlight, to educate the wider community, and to promote popular ownership of the process.

Following this the constitutional reform process will enter into a new phase of awareness raising and advocacy of a «yes» vote.

2.1 That all Australian political parties commit to and participate in the constitutional reform process in good faith to progress recognition of the unique place and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

To enhance the legitimacy of the constitutional reform process, and in line with the Declaration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples need to be involved in the design and implementation of the consultation process from the earliest stage.

Not exact matches

«Responsible change may not come as immediately as some hope for, but rather through an incremental process of constitutional reform and U.N. - supervised elections.

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

House of Lords reform and EVEL are both folded into the constitutional convention process.

Those measures, which had included lowered campaign contribution rates, a cap on the amount of money lawmakers can earn outside of their government work and reforms to the constitutional convention process, have been seemingly scaled back.

The latter have been exacerbated by the reform process of Catalonia's 2006 Statute of Autonomy (Constitutional Law) and the 2010 judgement of Spain's Constitutional Court regarding this Law.

[1] The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

They would be allowed to design the districts as they pleased to respond to the 2010 census, but would have to pass a constitutional amendment to reform the process for the next census in 2020.

Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), League of Women Voters of New York State, and other good government groups jointly write to Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to reform the constitutional convention delegate selection process.

Along with the bill containing the new district lines, the Legislature is likely to vote on a separate bill containing a constitutional amendment that would reform the process 10 years down the road.

[i] «The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

Yes it could be complex to go through an entire constitutional process with referendums on Lords reform and so on, but I would say it is worth it — look what the commons has achieved on Lords reform, on voting reform.

The Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee explains the appalling process by which this government has bulldozed its astonishing Lobbying Bill through the British parliament.

This was an ongoing process of constitutional reform with the Ministry of Justice as lead ministry.

Martins told Long Island Business News: «I fully and unequivocally support redistricting reform and voted in favor of the most recent constitutional amendment that was passed by the Senate... Unfortunately, there are still those who would have the very process of reform turned on its head to become a bitter, partisan one.»

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the UK Parliament published a Select Committee Publications on the «Lessons from the process of Government formation after the 2010 General Election».

The governor will accept the legislature's lines, in exchange for a constitutional amendment and an accompanying law to reform the process the next time around, after 2020.

Republicans favor a constitutional amendment to change the redistricting process, but Democrats complain that will put off reform another 10 years, avoiding the redrawing of district lines next year.

Unfortunately, under the so - called reform that the governor extracted as part of the redistricting agreement, the proposed constitutional amendment to change New York's process will do nothing to reform the problem of unequal representation.

It's been many years since I began campaigning for the House of Commons to have a say on whether we went to war or not, so I was delighted that the Cabinet Secretary in a so far unreported statement told the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee this week that he would examine the words needed to put the right of Parliament to be involved in the war - making process into the Cabinet Manual.

Political observers say the ability to tweak district lines is crucial to the Republicans» ability to stay in power, and they have been loath to cede any control over the process — their reform bill, which passed the Senate in March, sets in motion a constitutional change that would not take effect for a decade.

The body in question, the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, had previously produced penetrating reports on English devolution, the need for a Constitutional Convention, Parliamentary boundaries, the future for Scotland, improving the legislative process, voter disengagement, the gagging bill, etc. — enough critical analysis for a domineering Conservative majority to want to get rid of it.

Some said they voted for the new lines because they were fair, or because of another bill that provided a constitutional amendment to reform the redistricting process next time around in 2022.

The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 introduced a new statutory basis for the management of the civil service, and a new parliamentary process for the ratification of treaties.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director, of Common Cause / NY, says a constitutional amendment to change the redistricting process in the future is not enough and that real reform must be made to the system this time around.

The structural reform would likely be a constitutional amendment for the 2022 redistricting process.

But instead, setting a pattern for the fate of his reform promises, Cuomo cut a deal: keep this set of lines — which will remain in place for ten years, boosting the G.O.P.'s chance to hold the Senate — in exchange for reducing pensions for new public employees, authorizing casino gambling and this constitutional amendment, which will change the process for 2022.

A judicial presence is especially important to ensure that the reform process — and reasonable funding levels — are maintained in times of economic stress or recession like the present, where children's needs and constitutional values are often given short shrift.

«The inept handling of the beginning of reform which culminated in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and the secretive process of establishing a Ministry of Justice, which was trailed in the newspapers before consultation either of the judiciary or the Lord Chancellor, were seemingly unaffected by the presence of lawyers within Cabinet.&reform which culminated in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and the secretive process of establishing a Ministry of Justice, which was trailed in the newspapers before consultation either of the judiciary or the Lord Chancellor, were seemingly unaffected by the presence of lawyers within Cabinet.&Reform Act 2005, and the secretive process of establishing a Ministry of Justice, which was trailed in the newspapers before consultation either of the judiciary or the Lord Chancellor, were seemingly unaffected by the presence of lawyers within Cabinet.»

The introduction of major legal reforms, particularly by the lower courts, in the guise of a constitutional reinterpretation and with the assistance of inherently amorphous concepts such as gross disproportionality, undermines the democratic process.

Although Pal agrees that the role and the nature of the electoral process may not be transformed through reform, he points to Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj and Henry v. Canada to highlight that courts appear to provide some constitutional significant to the connection between Members of Parliament and specific geographic ridings.

In effect, this arrangement would codify the position as reported by the prime minister in his statement on constitutional reform in July 2007 that the attorney general had decided that during the consultation process, she would not «make key prosecution decisions in individual criminal cases» (unless the law or national security required it).

He is Head of the School of Law at NUI Galway where he teaches Constitutional Law, European Human Rights, Processes of Law Reform and Advocacy, Activism & Public Interest Law.

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The Prime Minister has also raised the possibility of constitutional reform to recognise Indigenous peoples and has identified processes to improve Indigenous representation — two key issues that will impact on the adequacy of rights protection for Indigenous peoples.

As the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, I am eager to see a process — a campaign — to achieve constitutional reform that recognises the important place of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders in our nation and guarantees non-discrimination,

The Commission further recommended that the Australian Government should begin a process of constitutional reform to protect the principle of equality for all people in Australia, including:

The Prime Minister has also raised the possibility of Constitutional reform to recognise Indigenous Australians and has identified processes to improve Indigenous representation.

That the Commonwealth Government, in consultation with the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, ATSIC, the Constitutional Centenary Foundation and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner establish structures and processes of constitutional reform and national renewal which are building towards the new millennium and the centenary of the ConstitConstitutional Centenary Foundation and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner establish structures and processes of constitutional reform and national renewal which are building towards the new millennium and the centenary of the Constitconstitutional reform and national renewal which are building towards the new millennium and the centenary of the Constitution in 2001.