Sentences with phrase «by a constitution which»

Mr Baidoo said NDC is a party governed by a constitution which requires a national delegates congress to select who becomes the flagbearer of the party.

Laws are laid by the constitution which needs to be followed by every citizen residing in Canada.

If, then, a government, composed of legislative, executive and judicial departments, were established by a constitution which imposed no limits on the legislative power, the consequence would inevitably be that whatever the legislative power chose to enact would be lawfully enacted, and the judicial power could never interpose to pronounce it void.

Not exact matches

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.&raquBy selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.&raquby citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.&raquby citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

States that have legalized marijuana are embolden to defy the federal government by the Constitution's Tenth Amendment, which declares states have authority over any matter that the Constitution has not specified is a matter for the federal government.

A good place to start in understanding cannabis legalization is by reading the Constitution, which you can do right here.

So, in 1947, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified by all 50 states in 1951, limiting U.S. Presidents to two four - year terms.

If he really wants to, Trudeau can invoke section 92 (10)(c), of the Constitution, which gives him the legal jurisdiction to by - pass the province and, for the «general advantage of Canada,» build the pipeline.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

Their vision is being put to the test by the present Constitution Revision Commission, which will dishonor itself if it does not act on the assault weapon crisis.

The initiative process and the Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed every 20 years, owe their existence to a grossly unrepresentative Legislature that was controlled by rural counties with fewer than 20 percent of Florida's population.

The writ petition filed by Kali Digital claims that the decision of the Reserve Bank to deny services to crypto traders and exchanges violates various acts of the Indian constitution - Article 19 (1)(g) and Article 14 - which promise individuals a fair treatment among the eyes of law, as well as the freedom to practice any business or occupation of their choice.

Even more than the Constitution, which was written by a group of men over a span of months, the Bible, which was written by many different voices over millennia, is (to borrow from Souter) a «pantheon of values.»

Judging by the glee with which many within the rebellion have greeted the military crackdown on the Brotherhood, it's doubtful that the Tamarrod would ever again agree to allow the Islamists, or even just the religious, a decisive hand in writing a constitution....

(5) Power is full of danger; therefore the good state is one in which power is checked and balanced, restricted by sound constitutions and customs.

Some of those involved in the Movement make the formal commitment of Membership, which consists in an agreement to uphold its Aims and Ideals, to abide by its Constitution, and to support its activities through prayer, work and financial assistance.

The political use of Hindutva has survived several court cases, most notably a major one in 1995 brought by those who felt that its allure was primarily religious in nature and hence violated India's constitution, which prohibits candidates from appealing to voters exclusively on religious grounds.

On 23 February, the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, Jr., sent a letter to members of Congress in which he informed them that President Obama had determined that DOMA is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and, as such, will no longer be defended by his administration.

True, the constitution of the Church does not provide an absolute guarantee that these charismatic elements which are given her by the freely acting Spirit of God are always accorded the necessary freedom for their development.

That we may, and ought, to resist, and even make war against those rulers who leap the bounds prescribed them by the constitution, and attempt to oppress and enslave the subjects, is a principle on which alone the great revolutions which have taken place in our nation can be justified.»

This is simply to repeat that these alone are the rights properly protected by a democratic constitution, with which all other political decisions should be consistent.

The constitution should also stipulate the process by which the constitution itself can be changed, allowing that whether any actual constitution is in fact democratic is itself subject to debate.

The Charter is the most significant component of Canada's Constitution Act, 1982, which was engineered by the current prime minister's late father, Pierre Trudeau.

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

Each actual occasion prehends the space - time continuum in its infinite entirety; that, says Whitehead, is nothing but an example of the general principle (also illustrated by prehension of qualitative eternal objects) that «actual fact includes in its own constitution real potentiality which is referent beyond itself.»

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

It is the Constitution that contains the law by which the people rule themselves.

Saving the Constitution from the Courts By William Gangi University of Oklahoma Press, 326 pages, $ 45 Cases like Roe, Casey, and the recent Romer decision remind us of the degree to which constitutional interpretation has been supplanted by judicial lawmakinBy William Gangi University of Oklahoma Press, 326 pages, $ 45 Cases like Roe, Casey, and the recent Romer decision remind us of the degree to which constitutional interpretation has been supplanted by judicial lawmakinby judicial lawmaking.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Watson seemed particularly rankled by the Justice Department's plea for him to rule specifically on the language of the travel ban itself and not make his decision based on some of President Trump and his colleagues» language about the ban — language which made it clear the ban violates the spirit of the Constitution.

By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of our country wrote into the Constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship and tyranny, which they greatly feared.

Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, which provides that only Congress can declare war, has been violated wholesale, and the provision that only the Senate can ratify treaties has been made all but meaningless by dozens of secret «contingency agreements» with the dictators of Spain, Thailand, Ethiopia, Brazil, Bolivia, etc., without the Senate's concurrence.

Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»

This essay is drawn from his new book, The Constitution and the Pride of Reason, which has just been issued by Oxford University Press.

If I may reiterate a point I have made repeatedly, unlike the substantialist view in which reality is composed of discrete, isolated substances that have external relations, in the process understanding everything flows into the inner self - constitution of every momentary experience; reality is thoroughly participatory, characterized by internal relations.

But voters need to rest assured that when I go to Washington D.C., it's the Constitution by which I will make all of my decisions.

Few believers are likely to pledge their allegiance to a government under which the courts» in the name of «constitutional rights» they themselves have sole authority to read into the Constitution» can systematically close off any form of political opposition by declaring it to betray the «inevitable inference» of animus.

It's easy to say that Burke doesn't take something like «natural right» seriously, but he certainly had a standard of good and evil by which he judged England and its constitution.

We will also enjoy our religious freedom, guaranteed by the Constitution, which keeps your bible out of our schools.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

When I became a lawyer I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, which now, as interpreted by the Court, contains newly discovered rights that, if accepted, would destroy my moral and religious beliefs and therefore my conscience.

In many respects this principle corresponds to the tenth amendment to the United States Constitution which provides that «The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.»

But within a few short years the Revolution led first to schism (with the «Civil Constitution of the Clergy» in 1790) and soon to the outright de - Christianisation of France, accompanied by the unleashing of the Terror, in which hundreds of thousands of innocent Catholics were murdered — not least the 115,000 peasants of the Vendée, slaughtered in the first genocide of the modern age.

Egypt's Christians are also concerned about the country's newly drafted constitution, which was written by an Islamist - dominated assembly.

As my review explicitly says, much of Powell's book «attacks the secular myths by which we idolize the Constitution and the Court,» and it prefers the «corrigibility» of electoral politics to the «pretensions» of judicial review.

By the nineteenth century, universities were being founded which had no faculty of theology at all, and some had constitutions which declared that they were purely secular institutions in which no religious subjects could be pursued.

The belief that God's tenderness embraces all creatures gives more meaning to the words with which Abraham Lincoln concluded the Emancipation Proclamation: «And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.»

Defending the Constitution can become a moral principle by which we may use Machiavelli without surrendering to him.