Sentences with phrase «actual state constitution»

Not exact matches

Here connectedness is conceived not only as the causal dependence of one entity or state of affairs on others, but as the actual immanence of those other entities in the very constitution of the entity at issue.

Having endured for half a century a Court that seized authority not confided to it to lay down as unalterable law a liberal social agenda nowhere to be found in the actual Constitution of the United States, conservatives must decide whether they want a Court that behaves in the same way but in the service of their agenda.

The rule of law, he has argued, demands that we be bound by the text of the law» not by evolving social standards, not even by some elusive authorial intent, but by the actual words of the Constitution and of the statutes passed by state and federal legislatures.

The actual wording of the change to article 1 section 9 of the state's constitution is to allow «casino gambling at no more than seven facilities as authorized and prescribed by the legislature».

The governor also said he would push for a change to the state constitution that would deprive a convicted public official of a pension, end the use of campaign funds for personal use and curtail legislative «per diem» payments to cover only actual expenses.

The governor has offered hints about what he is saving for the actual day of his speech, which has been delayed a week beyond the date required in the state's constitution.

But the chambers could not agree on a companion piece of legislation - the actual amendment to the state's constitution - also needed.

(As proof of the vicissitudes of the judicial enterprise, the actual article in the state constitution that formed the basis of this conclusion, and the Herculean struggles surrounding the CFE suit, contain these 26 words: «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.»)

Neither the PSFA funding formula nor the funding levels it establishes and enforces provide school districts with sufficient funding to meet the actual and foreseeable costs of educating their students in accordance with the requirements of the Education Clause of the Colorado Constitution, education reform legislation, or the Colorado Consolidated State Plan (mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act).

Instead, the legislature has a long history of ignoring these Initiatives just like they ignore our State Constitution (which is also an actual law).

Yesterday, September 7, 2016, a Connecticut state judge agreed with a coalition of towns, parents and public school advocates that the actual mechanism by which Connecticut distributes school aid is unconstitutional because it fails to provide poorer communities with adequate resources that are required by the Connecticut constitution.

We can be as right as rain when it comes to the law itself, but bull - headed public officials think they have some authority that is not granted to them by their State Legislature or Constitution, and often act in contrast to what the actual law says.