Sentences with phrase «charter drafters»

Why there hasn't been a hue and cry from the original charter drafters is beyond belief.

Charter drafters have made many changes that have moved their document closer to the UN position, but one must assume the compromises are grudgingly done and only for tactical reasons.

There was one voice in the wilderness: Dare Thompson, a charter drafter, expressed dismay at the executive's proposal at a budget hearing held by the legislature's Ways and Means Committee in Marlboro last month, but her voice apparently didn't reach beyond the apple orchards therein.

Not exact matches

Liu was the principle drafter of «Charter 08,» patterned after Czechoslovakia's Charter 77, calling for democracy and respect for human rights.

He meant, of course, a reinvigoration of the system of collective security envisioned by the drafters of the United Nations Charter.

Droessler said she and the other drafters did the best they could in developing the budget and were told by district officials to use as a guide the budgets of the district's three other charter schools: Badger Rock Middle School, Nuestro Mundo Community School and Wright Middle School.

The drafters and the framers of the Charter were not prepared to relinquish to the courts the right to question the substantive adequacy of their legislation.

One of the drafters of the Charter was, at the time, Federal Assistant Deputy Minister of public law, Mr. Barry Strayer, Q.C. who later went on to become a much respected judge of the Federal Court of Appeal.

The source of this discussion is Article 51 of the Charter, which was the object of much disagreement among the drafters of the Charter.

Prof. Brian Slattery argues that the Court is actually the third line of defence against Charter violations: the drafters have an obligation to work within the framework of the Constitution and parliamentarians, in both Houses, have a duty to pass only legislation that is plausibly constitutional.

Among other speakers is the Hon. Roy McMurtry, a key drafter of the Charter, who will share with the audience a «behind the scenes» look at the crafting of the Charter and the debate, if any, at the time with respect to the enactment of the equality rights section.

I note that the drafters of the Charter were clearly aware of this ambiguity, as they certainly didn't impose on governments the general obligation to treat citizens equally in drafting section 15 (1)-- they made a point of defining equality as equality before and under the law, including the right to equal protection and benefit of the law.