Sentences with phrase «by referendum»

And the inherent uncertainty caused by a referendum on this arbitrary timetable has been made far worse since.

Not passed by referendum, but it is the law of the land.

There is also a possible 75 % tax imposed on «extraordinary gains», but this may be struck down by referendum vote in early 2018.

However, reversing legislation approved by referendum would be unprecedented.

She and the others said they want to change the park district by referendum because the alternative, running for the board themselves, would take too long.

The district has sufficient bonding authority and will not need voter approval by referendum, he added.

He also responded with plans for a lengthy debate on the topic and stated that he believed the document to be too complex to be decided by referendum.

Where was his amendment to the bill demanding that the perfect system be placed in front of the public for decision by referendum?

Are citizens free to «impose» such values by referendum or legislative means in their respective states, or are their efforts inherently unconstitutional?

However, he acknowledged that a park district can only be dissolved by referendum or by its own vote.

Far from being determined by the referendum, these questions were not addressed by anybody.

Another example could be a policy backed by referendum.

It could be approved by a referendum, but with the entire political system against that could be really hard.

In nearly all cases, these changes were introduced without any process of consultation beyond the incumbent government and only recently with an endorsement by referendum.

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That renegotiation was followed by a referendum in June 2016, which resulted in the British electorate voting to withdraw from the European Union by 52 % to 48 % and led to the resignation of Cameron as Prime Minister.

The modern independence movement began when the 2006 Statute of Autonomy, which had been agreed with the Spanish government and passed by a referendum in Catalonia, was challenged in the Spanish High Court of Justice, which ruled that some of the articles were unconstitutional, or were to be interpreted restrictively.

Data is latest evidence uncertainty caused by the referendum result has cost British academics

On his party's future: Pitching himself as a unity candidate, who can heal divisions caused by the referendum campaign.

Sponsors inserted in the laws a provision allocating $ 1 million to implement the laws, a shrewd way to make it harder to overturn the laws by referendum because Michigan's constitution bars challenges of spending bills.

As we reported in the July 18 WEAC Legislative Update, referendum restrictions included in the Senate GOP plan would exclude from «shared cost» any amount levied by a district in a prior year for either operating or debt service costs that were authorized by a referendum if doing so would not increase the district's equalization aid entitlement.

In some cases, uncontroversial news laws have to be adopted by referendums because the law requires so.

Asked whether the prime minister was so distracted by the referendum campaign that he had taken his eye off the ball, leading to a poorly - received budget and the crisis in the steel industry, he replied:

One month later, at Documenta 5 in Kassel, Beuys installed an office of his Organization for Direct Democracy by Referendum as his contribution to the exhibition.

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Geoffrey Robertson's article sums up the political background very succinctly: «Our democracy does not allow, much less require, decision - making by referendum.

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

Ideally, any raise shoudl be done by referendum and voted on by the public.

Unlike California, which is virtually governed by referendum, New York does not have a statewide citizen - initiated policy process.

«We have also delivered on the mandate that we were handed by the referendum result.

An initial project for its Constitution was rejected by a referendum in 1778, leading to the election of a new constitutional convention.

We are not cheering the fact that we did not get an agreement... it would not have been in Britain's interest for our Parliament to be distracted by a referendum.

In other words, under the bill, a negative tertiary school district will not lose equalization aid for capital expenditures that exceed the tertiary guarantee and are funded by referenda.

Recommendation 9: The Australian Government support the outcomes of the national consultations conducted by the Referendum Council.

There is legal uncertainty as to whether the existing preamble can be altered by referendum pursuant to s 128 of the Constitution.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has unveiled constitutional reform proposals that would make consultations by referendum easier, strengthen the largely ceremonial presidency somewhat and limit lawmakers» consecutive terms to 8...

There's been a lot of movement on this front over the last couple of years, as the Maine state legislature and Gov. John Baldacci legalized gay marriage, only to have the decision reversed by a referendum last November.

It seems extraordinary that the government, having relentlessly emphasised for more than three years that the people would decide the issue by the referendum, should have accepted that it was only advisory.

Section 128 of the Constitution and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 (Cth) set out the procedure for amending the Constitution by referendum.

Almost everyone expects the Bank of England to do this because the uncertainty caused by the referendum debate and the result likely caused a recession.

Under the Michigan constitution any law that includes such an allocation of money can not be challenged by referendum.

Catalonia stands by the referendum, but has failed to officially declare independence.

Switzerland has sidestepped the threat to its franc posed by the referendum on gold reserves.

In point of fact, the issue of assisted suicide was addressed in this state by referendum just last November.

In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by another referendum in 2008.

Blievernicht, who is gathering signatures for a petition to decide such matters by referendum, told Village Board members this week that he is concerned about their plan to sell bonds for capital improvements.

The Park District's construction plans were derailed by the referendum loss and the decision this spring by the Grayslake Library District Board to back out of a joint venture to build a combination library - community center in Central Park.

Village communities will be torn apart by referendums on local planning decisions, campaigners have said.