Sentences with phrase «agenda of constitutional»

The new government already faces a substantial agenda of constitutional politics without adding to the load.

The fact that both Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown shared an enthusiasm for this idea helped to ensure that rather more of the Cook - Maclennan agenda of constitutional change was achieved through our co-operation than might have been expected from a Labour government with a large majority.

Desperate for fresh ideas as way back into power, the New Labour leadership cottoned onto Charter 88's shiny new agenda of constitutional change.

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But now support for her has plunged to around 30 percent, a record low, and analysts say an ambitious agenda including a proposed constitutional reform and overhaul of the university education system are at risk.

Italians will go to the polls in October over a constitutional reform that PM Matteo Renzi has made the centerpiece of his agenda to jump start an economy that hasn't grown meaningfully since 2000.

The constitutional reforms of 1992 offered a chance to put freedom of religion and speech on the agenda again.

Although certain elements in the constitutional reform movement criticise corporate power in general terms, no one has reduced the ideas floating about to the frame of a concrete settlement, or integrated it into any concrete agenda.

White highlighted four crucial questions for any constitutional convention in the UK: 1) Its membership (politicians, the public or both); 2) Its agenda and whether or not it has agenda - setting powers; 3) What happens to its output (whether it goes to parliament or straight to a referendum); 4) How co-ordinated it is across the territories of the UK.

What may indeed turn out to be most significant about these proposals, in constitutional terms, is that they may create the impetus for a broader reformist agenda around the question of a more clearly delineated «English» dimension within the UK's system of parliamentary government.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

Beyond this, it is an open question as to whether this initiative mechanism should be limited only to constitutional issues, or rather become an agenda - setting device for generating a citizens» assembly on any broad political issue where the relevant number of signatures can be collected.

It is a prudent principle of constitutional design that those who are privileged within the current system (and who have strong interests in any alterations to the institutional architecture) should not hold such agenda - setting power.

Of course there is no formal link between those different elements of the constitutional and political reform agenda that this Government are pursuinOf course there is no formal link between those different elements of the constitutional and political reform agenda that this Government are pursuinof the constitutional and political reform agenda that this Government are pursuing.

There are various bits that make up the mosaic of this Government's political and constitutional reform agenda.

From that union, together with the SDP's misguided Alliance with the Liberals around their practically Bennite constitutional agenda, derives the Political Class's desire to abolish the House of Lords.

Another part of Clegg's constitutional reform agenda has bitten the dust.

His own agenda - constitutional reform, devolution and proportional representation - had finally found a friendly patron in Number Ten; there was even talk of a perch within the Cabinet.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the expansion in his broad economic agenda outlined Sunday afternoon, but such a move would take a constitutional amendment, a time - consuming process that includes approval of two separate sessions of the Legislature.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

There is a certain irony that a prominent element of the coalition's stuttering constitutional agenda — the unreformed House of Lords — this week has the chance to give the kiss of life to another.

According to him, since Ghana's return to constitutional governance in 1993, all presidents have received two terms thus President Mahama deserves a second term to complete his agenda of...

He insisted for months that he would veto lines that were gerrymandered, but in the end let stand the products of legislative electioneering in exchange for a slew of other agenda items and a constitutional amendment that somewhat wrested the redistricting pen from legislators» hands.

Gordon Brown yesterday endorsed radical measures to put a revived parliament back at the centre of British political life, in a reform package designed to revive his flagging constitutional agenda and restore MPs» lost credibility.

The former Scottish Secretary said there was a need for a new constitutional settlement for the UK as a whole, with greater decentralisation to the cities and regions of England also on the agenda.

Of particular importance on the legislative agenda this year, is Senate Constitutional Amendment 3 (SCA 3) introduced by Senator Mark Leno, which would lower the vote threshold for local school district parcel tax measures from 2/3 to 55 percent.

Every year, the US president fulfils his constitutional duty to provide a State of the Union address, where he updates Congress on the condition of the nation and outlines his legislative agenda for the coming year.

«When you are pushing a narrow, partisan agenda for constitutional change, planning amendments when you can have the most partisan advantage, you do a lot of damage to the Constitution as a unifying force,» said Super.

None of this vast green religious agenda is compatible with individual freedom, constitutional rights or private property — and none of it makes any economic or climate sense.

Constitutional reform is unlikely to feature prominently on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's immediate agenda, as he was the only leader of a major party whose proposals for the Senate did not require constitutConstitutional reform is unlikely to feature prominently on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's immediate agenda, as he was the only leader of a major party whose proposals for the Senate did not require constitutionalconstitutional changes.

Perhaps now is the time for consumer and other lawyers to put the regulation of electoral advertising back on the political agenda: In the current political climate there may at least be some consensus on the importance of closing a regulatory vacuum which gives politicians advising the general public on the far reaching consequences of constitutional change more unfettered freedom than a toothpaste manufacturer promoting its latest product line.

The more complex response is that what the courts acquire when a bill of rights is entrenched is the power to set a constitutional agenda, a power that the legislature may never have had and so has not necessarily lost, a power the political significance of which depends on the form and content of what is entrenched and the value and character of the power it leaves in the hands of the legislature.

As such, human rights are most probably «here to stay», but we should not overestimate the constitutional power of judges, or underestimate the power of Parliament to set the legal agenda.

We were told to go away, in the spirit of self - determination, and come up with a proposal to forward the constitutional change agenda.

Making progress on the rights agenda, this includes constitutional reform and formal recognition of past wrongs;

2.2 That the Australian Government place constitutional reform on the Council of Australian Governments agenda as a national priority.

At the highest level, sitting atop the myriad of specific issues with which I and my team engage, there are four key inter-related national issues: Constitutional reform, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [2], progress towards Closing the Gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequality, and the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in this country, an issue at the forefront of my agenda.