Sentences with phrase «union under the constitution»

The equal footing doctrine, also known as equality of the states, is the principle in United States constitutional law that all states admitted to the Union under the Constitution since 1789 enter on equal footing with the 13 states already in the Union at that time.

Not exact matches

The importance of the second and third issues is obvious for decisions about a written constitution, which later was interpreted as involving judicial review of acts of Congress, and for a federal union of states having partial autonomy under a national government.

On March 30th, a federal court ruled that parts of Act 10, Gov. Walker's union - busting law, were unconstitutional under the U.S. constitution.

In an argument, the group claimed that residents of the Western Togoland voted to become a union with the Gold Coast (now Ghana) but the union had not been established up till now and that Ghana opted to be a unitary state under the plebiscite in 1956 [referendum] to be in union with a common constitution with the WesternTogoland and the Gold Coast but there had been no unionized constitution up to date.

The state teachers union, the Florida Education Association, is claiming that «the tax - credit scholarships divert state money away from a quality public education system the state is required, under the Florida Constitution, to provide.»

The Council also approved the Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Cooper Union Alumni Association, incorporated under Section 803 of the Not - for - Profit Corporation Law, and revised by - laws to support the Constitution approved by the Alumni Body in May 2016..

147 (1) A parent trade union shall not, without just cause, alter the jurisdiction of a local trade union as the jurisdiction existed on May 1, 1992, whether it was established under a constitution or otherwise.

He recently represented the Retirement Plan for Chicago Transit Authority Employees in the Supreme Court of Illinois in the Matthews case, which challenged the constitutionality, under the Illinois State Constitution, of the CTA's pension reform agreement with its unions (decision pending).

Justice Gorsuch argued that partisan gerrymandering claims arise under Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, which requires the federal government to «guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,» and which the Court has long dismissed as giving rise only to non-justiciable political questions.

June 20, 2016 — «The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is suing the state for failing to provide adequate indigent defense services to the public... a requirement under the 6th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.