Sentences with phrase «in constitutional democracy»

Yesterday's court ruling, while minor, symbolically illustrates that in a constitutional democracy even Alberta's Progressive Conservatives are not all - powerful.

Put differently, the appellants» arguments fail to recognize that in a constitutional democracy such as ours, protection from legislation that some might view as unjust or unfair properly lies not in the amorphous underlying principles of our Constitution, but in its text and the ballot box (par.

She has stated publicly on several occasions that mutual respect between the branches of government — and their respective roles — is essential in a constitutional democracy.»

Regardless, we live in a constitutional democracy where navigating the legal system is a long, hard and expensive slog.

[1] This case raises troubling implications that strike to the heart of the constitutional relationship between the judicial and other branches of government in our constitutional democracy.

It makes the job of the court that much more important in our constitutional democracy.

Fortunately, we live in a constitutional democracy with not two, but three branches of government and the judicial branch has drawn the constitutional line to protect our children.

They might have to hold their noses while ruling in favor of laws that make a mockery of our tenets of fairness in a constitutional democracy.

Whatever one thinks of the appropriate federal role in education, there are surely strong reasons in our constitutional democracy to prefer that we get to where we are going through law rather than executive edict.

As a result, the Code of Virginia § 22.1 — 200.03 required the Board of Education to develop and approve objectives for economics education and financial literacy to be required of all students at the middle and high school levels to «further the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for responsible citizenship in a constitutional democracy.»

Smart said, «In any constitutional democracy, the number of times one represents a constituency is not the issue; the yardstick is performance.

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

In constitutional democracy, the powers of the rulers are regulated by legal means so that the rights of the minorities and the weak are protected and respected.

And if we could reach down to the root of the mayor's error, we would have some understanding of how religion actually works in a constitutional democracy.

«What they decide will determine whether we still live in a constitutional democracy.»

In constitutional democracies, people tend to think in terms of dichotomies — faith and reason, church and state, public and private, executive and legislature.

Not exact matches

The Polish government is in talks with the authorities in Brussels to ensure its changes to the constitutional court would not affect democracy.

In so doing, they founded a constitutional democracy, among the most enduring history has known.

In a country that prides itself on being the oldest constitutional democracy in the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nomineeIn a country that prides itself on being the oldest constitutional democracy in the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nomineein the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nominees.

I'm not in the business of political analysis, but I really don't think the choice was between being a banana republic and a constitutional democracy.

And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our children.

For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

This results in a plebiscitarian, rather than a constitutional democracy (O'Donnell, 1996).

For indigenous institutions to work, however, the constitutional fundamentals of democracy, human rights and the rule of law must be in place.

'' It is noteworthy that this is not the first time the court is ruling against PDP's impunity of violating its own constitutional provisions and the Electoral Aact with regards to ensuring internal democracy in the conduct of primary elections.

In the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decideIn the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decidein the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decided.

For this reason, most parliamentary democracies have developed rules to govern these situations, often in the form of constitutional laws.

It is considered by some parties as illegitimate, posing a serious danger to Japan's democracy since the Prime Minister circumvented the constitutional amendment procedure, dictating a radical change to the meaning of fundamental principles in the Constitution by way of Cabinet fiat without Diet debate, vote, or public approval.

Events like some of those described here — with six Supreme Court judges annulling a national election on flimsy if not illegal grounds, Parliament deliberately disrespecting the overwhelming result of a constitutional referendum — are simply not supposed to happen in a democracy.

Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy, opened the discussion on digital freedoms on an optimistic note by predicting that the UK will have a codified constitution in the next 25 years and can therefore become the first major democracy to harness the participatory potential of the web to found a new constitutional settlement.

SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said: «Today of all days we are reminded, notwithstanding our differences on political and constitutional issues, we are as one in our dedication to democracy, rule of law and harmony between people of all faiths and none.»

All democracies in the world are Constitutional save for the UK and New Zealand, which are Parliamentary (the legislature makes the ultimate law)(Australia may qualify as they have Constitutional Law, but not defined by one document), though the level of restrictions may vary between country.

In «Democracy and its Crisis» published this week, philosopher Professor A C Grayling concludes with a study of Trump and Brexit: «No constitutional system should allow a partisan group to hijack the interests of the whole: this is happening in the UK and the US as these words are being written.&raquIn «Democracy and its Crisis» published this week, philosopher Professor A C Grayling concludes with a study of Trump and Brexit: «No constitutional system should allow a partisan group to hijack the interests of the whole: this is happening in the UK and the US as these words are being written.&raquin the UK and the US as these words are being written.»

Interesting fact: While Haiti is currently a constitutional democracy, it has had 24 - 25 Constitutions in the last 200 years, 5 of them in the last 50 years.

Ghana (Listeni / ˈɡɑːnə /), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

Heathcoat - Amory was selected by the Power 2010 democracy and constitutional reform campaign as one of six MPs accused of «failing our democracy» and who «stand in the way of a reforming Parliament».

«Democracy on demand» would have to be discussed in depth at a constitutional convention in order to be accepted by Labour.

Addressing journalists at a press conference on the state of the nation in Abuja, the spokesman for the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiya, urged Trump to stand up for democracy and take Buhari to task on constitutional and human rights violations in Nigeria under his watch.

Throughout the evidence session, Mr Copson emphasised that there was no constitutional reason to have automatic places for the Bishops, and anyone who argued for their retention was simply arguing to extend a religious privilege which has no place in a modern, liberal and diverse democracy.

I wish first and foremost to thank Your Excellency, Mr. President, for the very fact of considering me as a fit and proper person for this position even though I come from the opposite pond of social democracy and in the past, we have been very strong and robust professional adversaries in the development of the constitutional law of our dear country from its inception.

«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our courts are working, rule of law is part of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved by decisions by an arm of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.

«Under an unconstitutional government, you can just lock up someone just like that, and seize all their assets; but we live in constitutional governance and democracy, and so the law must work.

In a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi StatIn a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi Statin Kogi State.

«Nigeria is operating a constitutional democracy which places high premium on the sanctity of human lives and Aderiye's death must not be allowed to go the way of the late Chief Bola Ige, Chief Harry Marshall and other politically - motivated killings in Nigeria,» he said.

In the concluding chapter of Unlocking Democracy: 20 Years of Charter 88, I predicted that the UK would shortly find itself in a «perfect constitutional storm.&raquIn the concluding chapter of Unlocking Democracy: 20 Years of Charter 88, I predicted that the UK would shortly find itself in a «perfect constitutional storm.&raquin a «perfect constitutional storm.»

So, in short, it is possible that Donald Trump has already damaged our Constitutional Democracy without even taking office.

His ministers have been speaking out in recent months - in August, constitutional affairs secretary Lord Falconer said the US was guilty of a «shocking affront to the principles of democracy» in using the camp to hold terror suspects.

Allowing a pariah and disgraced leader such as Mugabe asylum in our country would be an affront to the values and principles upon which our constitutional democracy is based,» Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, said.