Sentences with phrase «by the constitution when»

To the contrary, States must act within limits imposed by the Constitution when regulating parties» internal processes.

According to the Court of Appeal, Metuh and his company failed to first obtain the leave of either the trial court or the appellate court before filing a notice of appeal as required by the constitution when filing an appeal against an interlocutory decision, on the grounds of mixed law and facts.

Not exact matches

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, in the works since 2005, was likely dealt a fatal blow on June 30th when the Federal Court of Appeal threw out its 2014 conditional approval because the Crown (read: Harper government) failed in its «duty to consult» aboriginals as required by the Constitution.

I think we let the terrorists win when we become less American and violate our own constitution by messing around in people's religious affairs.

According to The Times of India newspaper, UCPN leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal told reporters: «We found during the feedback collection process that the people were deeply displeased and hurt with the usage of the term «secularism», therefore, when the new constitution is promulgated, the term will be replaced by another suitable term.»

When an event becomes an objective datum in the emerging constitution of some subsequent occasion, its symbolic form is interpreted anew, in relation to other symbolic objects, but always in conformity with the conditions established by its own actualization.

And when one examines the nature of this selfhood, one sees that it was not a selfish selfhood, but by its very constitution a selfhood for others.

When the American Revolution was completed, not only had the Established Church of England been rejected, but, more important, the very idea of Establishment had been discarded in principle by the new Constitution.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

Remember, Jesus lived in an era when two Caesars in a row had effectively «wiped their arses» with the Roman constitution by removing all power from the Roman Senate and consolidating that power in themselves.

When Hamilton tried to justify his ambitious economic program through a liberal reading of the Constitution's «necessary and proper» clause and by appealing to the transparently rhetorical «general welfare» of the eighth section of Article I, Madison's resistance might have been predicted.

Olson replied, in classic «living Constitution» fashion by saying this happened «when we as a culture determined that sexual orientation is a characteristic of individuals that they can not control.»

But it is important to add that when the framers of the Constitution envisioned the rough - and - tumble world of public argument, they almost certainly imagined heated disagreements against a background of broadly shared values; certainly that was the model offered by John Locke.

And, in the Army and when I was admitted to law practice, I must have sworn to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution — knowing that one of our founding documents talked about our being «endowed by our Creator» with certain rights.

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.

When any group attempts to deny or actually denies another group the same rights / privileges granted by the United States Constitution, we are a weaker nation.

Once passed, the new legislation will allow Christians to build and renovate their churches as stipulated by the constitution, a far cry from the days of toppled President Hosni Mubarak, when building and restoring churches required a presidential decree.

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.

By this I mean that the entity, when considered «formally,» is being described in respect to those forms of its constitution whereby it is that individual entity with its own measure of absolute self realization.

Even when a valid moral code or constitution is accepted as relevant and binding by a society, it can not direct individual moral choices in any univocal fashion.

The «full, conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations... to which the Christian people, «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people» [1 Peter 2.9, 4 - 5], have a right and obligation by reason of their baptism» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 14), is not advanced when those Christian people are treated as if they were dimwits, or five - year - olds with short attention spans.

So of course I was all up in arms when I found out that a bunch of publishers and politicians tried to «civilize» these documents by taking out the parts they didn't like — the n - word from a new edition of Huck Finn and those embarrassing sections about slaves counting as three - fifths of a person in Congress» reading of the Constitution.

The Constitution of India when formulated by the Constituent Assembly did not have the word «secular» to denote the character of the State in independent India, but it was assumed in several of its clauses.

Even today, some scholars argue that it did nothing more than declare that the Supreme Court is within its rights in declining to exercise an authority putatively conferred upon it by Congress when such authority exceeds the jurisdiction granted to the Court under Article Three of the Constitution.

Then again, what does it say about the coherence of those intentions when, by Hamburger's own account, at least three of our first seven presidents, including an influential drafter of the Constitution and the author of the Declaration of Independence, seem to have held separationist views outside the mainstream of their time?

But when Gorsuch is confirmed as our next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the spectacle will move on, and the Court will be strengthened by this new custodian to care for our Constitution and laws.

Our Constitution reflects the same principle when it exhorts the state to «promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of national life».

This was at a time when the appointing authorities were not privy to the alleged acts of misconduct or wrongdoings brought against him and 21 Circuit Court Judges and Magistrates who have been referred to the Chief Justice to be dealt with in accordance with Article 151 of the 1992 Constitution by tigereyepi for alleged stated misbehaviour.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress

«The Senate Republicans have chosen to disregard the plain language of the constitution and judicial interpretations of that language and try to add a 63rd seat to the Senate when it is completely not warranted by any legal standard whatsoever,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris -(D) Queens.

By the provisions of our constitution, Mr. Freddie Blay has no vested authority to sanction such a meeting, especially when I the chairman, the constitutionally mandated person to call and preside over such meetings have not authorized Mr. Blay to call any meeting.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

Goodluck Jonathan was not spared, as the former military ruler criticized what he described as «extra-constitutional measures», the measures applied by the National Assembly to empower Goodluck Jonathan as the acting president when the constitution already had a solution to the problem.

Sean Lennon says he and his mother first became concerned about the gas drilling practice when the Constitution Pipeline was planned to border their farm in the Catskills, purchased by John Lennon and Yoko Ono decades ago.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas attempted to violate the 1992 Constitution in October, 2015 when he went to Kumasi to publish the same so — called judicial corruption exposé but he was compelled to abandon it by a court action.

He however regretted that the Federal Government by its actions against his person had convicted him in the court of public opinion even when his own side of the story has not been heard as demanded by the Constitution of the Federal Republic Nigeria.

Where were the surrogates of John Dramani Mahama in the NDC when he was violating the 1992 Constitution when I was fighting the looting of the public purse by Mills and Mahama in the Supreme Court up to as recent as March 2017?

By analogical reasoning from the independence and freedoms guaranteed to the media, the spirit of the Constitution obligates them when they have published a rejoinder to a previous and similar false allegation, to at least call the readers» attention to the previous rebuttal of the current falsehood being peddled against the accused.

The grounds on which these reliefs were sought by Zanetor in the Supreme Court were that; The learned judge erred in law when he assumed jurisdiction to interpret article 94 (1) of the constitution holding that once the applicant had put herself out as a contestant in the parliamentary primaries of the NDC she was caught by article 94 (1)(a) which requires that she must be a registered voter at the time of her participation in the primaries.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

He noted that as a law - abiding party, the APC would abide by its own rules as enshrined in its constitution when dealing with the issue of nominations.

We therefore have a collective duty to respect these rights of individuals, especially so, when such individuals occupy very important or strategic institutions of state which the framers of our constitution in their wisdom, found it prudent to guarantee their independence by among others insulating them from the interference or control of the Executive or any other body.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

We think that in the circumstances when a specific complaint is made regarding the performance of any of the functions of the Commission, it is our duty to inquire into it and ask if there is by any provision of the constitution or any other law which detracts from the presumption of independence that article 46 bestows on it.

When the Articles were replaced by the current Constitution, that clause was dropped, since Canada clearly wasn't interested.

According to him, the framers of the constitution should have made provisions for the oath to be recited by the acting President when the need arises.

The Enugu State government has dismissed as baseless and legally untenable, allegations by members of the State House of Assembly that the government was in breach of the constitution when it applied the process popularly known in the public service as «virement» to reallocate funds in the 2012 budget.

Activist lawyer, Morakinyo Ogele, has criticized members of Ekiti State House of Assembly for allegedly looking the other way when the constitution was being breached by...