Sentences with phrase «ncce as a constitutional»

Spain's IBEX remained under pressure as a constitutional crisis grows in the country.

The debate over the role of Congress will be further complicated by the impending U.S. midterm elections as well as constitutional litigation over the respective roles of the White House and Congress regarding abrogation of trade agreements.

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a complaint against the state's «assault weapons» ban on Friday and expressly described similar bans as constitutional.

Gulati and Rasmussen's paper focuses on this question, arguing that, as a constitutional matter, the United States may not prohibit Puerto Rico from enacting its own bankruptcy - like restructuring process while offering no alternative mechanism.

Polk's innovations are best thought of as constitutional tricks.

If I were the president, I would take the partisan judicial activism masquerading as constitutional principle route, no matter what the Court decides.

This relative «openness to revision and correction,» as constitutional scholar H. Jefferson Powell calls it, should be appreciated by Christians.

When it came, though, to the force of dissents read aloud, nothing compares with the dissent he delivered in 2013, in the Windsor case, when the Court teed up the decision it would render two years later in proclaiming same - sex marriage as a constitutional right:

Whitehead notes that many school districts continue to resist the Equal Access Act, passed by Congress seven years ago and upheld as constitutional by an 8 - to - l vote of the Supreme Court.

To these one might add such instances as the constitutional protection of slavery which led some radical abolitionists to repudiate that document; the massive violation of civil liberties during World War I; and the internment of Japanese - American citizens during World War II.

If it can be shown, after all, that the founding Federalists were opposed to any government that promoted a particular conception of the good life, might we not then say that Laurence Tribe's and Eleanor Smeal's defense of «reproductive freedom» as a constitutional right is consistent with the principles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?

I think that during the pre-hostility's period the South's emphasis on the 9th and 10th Amendments (state's rights, etc) indicates their embrace, predicated on economic concerns, for the founding ideal of the sanctity of the «state» as the constitutional ground of the polis.

If same - sex marriage is accepted as a constitutional right, the rights of orthodox religious groups regarding their approach to and public judgment of the moral quality of same - sex couples» relationships may lose out, and in numerous ways.

A government that makes a policy of denying the normative character of these customs in favor of a vague multiculturalism does so at the peril of the larger culture to which it owes, yes, its own core identity as a constitutional government.

Yet the address also sounds a new theme by praising the moral strengths of Western democracy» especially Ronald Reagan's inspiring political leadership that enabled the West to win the Cold War, as well as the constitutional restraints on power that protect personal liberty.

««Privacy,» «he said, «is a broad, abstract, and ambiguous concept which can easily be shrunken in meaning but which can also, on the other hand, be interpreted as a constitutional ban against many other searches and seizures [than those intended by the Fourth Amendment].»

Plessy v. Ferguson, the case where the Court in 1896 embraced segregation as constitutional, was the ugly, illegitimate stepchild of Dred Scott in 1857.

This is known as a constitutional delay, or being a «late bloomer.»

Fortunately, yes it is legal to breastfeed a baby in public in most states, with some courts even defining it as a constitutional right.

This surely is the gloss we need to put on «the commune of the land,» a powerful phrase which Carpenter extols as a constitutional notion rather than the material reality it ought to become.

Magna Carta was not intended as a constitutional framework or a basic law.

As a constitutional matter, there is no basis for a referendum because there has not been a showing that there is substantial demand for the creation of new regions.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

These United States were designed as a Constitutional Republic.

The United Kingdom is referred to as a constitutional monarchy far more often than it is referred to as an absolute monarchy.

The general practice is to move to larger majority requirements for issues of larger significance, such as constitutional changes.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

The GOP - lead House is set to vote yet again to repeal the Affordable Care Act recently upheld as constitutional by the US Supreme Court.

As both a constitutional lawyer, albeit one specializing in the United States, and a political scientist, I followed with great interest the recent vote in Scotland regarding potential secession from the United Kingdom.

As a constitutional change, the bill requires more work to pass than normal legislation: Changes must be ratified by two consecutively elected Legislatures and then by voters in the next general election (for example, casino gaming was approved by that process in 2013).

He withdrew from the process before the election, however, upon being offered a position in the Number 10 Policy Unit as a constitutional and educational policy advisor in 1997.

They saw him as the new Adrian Pelt who would oversaw Libya's 1951 constitution and launched Libya as a constitutional monarchy under King Idris.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

The Cabinet Manual - specially written to guide politicians through the process - made it clear that the Queen could not be embroiled in political decisions about who should become prime minister, because, as a constitutional monarch, such a scenario would be entirely inappropriate.

Lord Shaw: «To what extent does the civil service act as a constitutional check on the actions of the ministers?»

He says he regards ministerial accountability as a constitutional and statutory principle and that civil servants exercise those powers on behalf of those ministers.

Add to this the political and legislative workload involved in devolving further powers to Scotland — and potentially revisiting the Smith Commission proposals in the process due to the SNP landslide — while also crafting a working arrangement for English votes for English laws, and it's obvious that the government has more than enough to be going on with as far as constitutional politics is concerned.

The USA was designed as a Constitutional Republic, with checks - and - balances between the branches of the federal government, and also division of power between federal state and local governments.

«Periodically we have a problem with our executive because he looks at the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly as a constitutional annoyance,» Flanagan said.

As a constitutional president, there are constitutional limits to his powers.

In addition, any lawmakers serving as constitutional convention delegates would get more credits toward their state pensions from the extra earnings.

Recent reports say the commission held back subpoenas at the administration's request, and Capital reported yesterday that commissioners are in discussions with the administration to propose a public campaign finance system as a constitutional amendment.

[142]: 916 [143]: 621 If a court concludes that racial considerations predominated, then the redistricting plan is considered «racially gerrymandered» and must be subjected to strict scrutiny, meaning that the redistricting plan will be upheld as constitutional only if it is narrowly tailored to advance a compelling state interest.

Under the Ashdown formula, the Liberal Democrats have worked with Labour on areas of mutual interest, such as constitutional reform, but have opposed the Government in other areas such as spending on health and education and preparation for the euro.

The mailer in the Nassau County Senate district touts Cronin's proposals, including term limits for state lawmakers, campaign finance reform measures such as closing the LLC loophole, boosting penalties for corruption and support for stripping public officials of their pensions if they are convicted of corruption — the latter of which is now up for second passage in the Legislature next year as a constitutional amendment.

The budget does not include ethics legislation such as a constitutional amendment for term limits or limiting legislative pay.

Issues like the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, and ethics reform such as the constitutional amendment the governor first proposed in December for term limits and limiting outside income for state officials, lack the «political will,» he said.

It is, however, probably the best the state is going to get at this point, as constitutional amendments, (which also require approval via a public referendum), are notoriously difficult to pass.

I would nitpick to note that many of the monarchial dynasties aren't really all that old or long (many of the countries of the Middle East are the product of post-WWI diplomacy between the colonial powers that prevailed in WWI with little local input and the dynasties are often younger than the U.S.A. as a constitutional republic.)

We assure the good people of Ghana that the NCCE as a Constitutional Body remains independent in carrying out its mandate to the nation,» portions of the statement said.