Sentences with phrase «constitution needs reform»

Other groups support a convention, saying the constitution needs reform.

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The recommendations emerging from those sessions included a series of worthwhile reforms to Dail procedures, notably the need to elect the Ceann Comhairle (Speaker) of the Dail by secret ballot of all TDs; and a strong majority in favour of inserting specific protection for economic, social and cultural rights (like the rights to housing and healthcare) into the Constitution.

But a new democracy settlement, including a written constitution, Lords reform and a clean break on party funding must show that the message about the need for change has got through.

Since the state Constitution guarantees pension benefits for current employees, pension reform needs to be understood as a strategy that will impact state and local finances for the next generation of government workers and taxpayers, not current workers and taxpayers.

For all these reasons I feel our constitution needs radical reform if we are to having a working constitution which upholds parliamentary sovereignty and freedom of the individual.

«Such a scheme violates the fundamental checks - and - balances principle that underlies our state constitution, as it does not establish the independence required of a procurement watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our State desperately needs.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

In an article for the Guardian, Clegg says that Lib Dem radicalism is needed «as much as ever» on issues such as the constitution and that the party will be pushing «harder for reform».

The Reform Party Constitution, as far as many are concerned, needs to be completely rewritten, but like the platform, it is necessary to have a large cross section of the nation involved.

He vowed to «reverse a century of centralisation» adding: «We need further devolution of power within England, we need reform at Westminster, and we need to look seriously at codifying the constitution.

He would rather push unproven «reforms» that bear no relationship to what our highest court and our constitution recognize that our children need.

Jackson's determination that the Constitution must be amended to include a right to an equal education for all, to Rev. Jackson's concern that parents need to do more and demand more, to corporate reform's attack on teachers unions and the very basics of public education.

n order to meet the requirements of the mandates of the Education Clause of the Colorado Constitution, education reform legislation, and the Colorado Consolidated State Plan, Colorado schools would need an infusion of funding far beyond that required by Amendment 23 to the state cConstitution, education reform legislation, and the Colorado Consolidated State Plan, Colorado schools would need an infusion of funding far beyond that required by Amendment 23 to the state constitutionconstitution.

This drive for more collaboration on behalf of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is very much in line with the NHS constitution and reforms to the wider NHS, which advocate greater integration wherever possible.

The Social Justice Report 2008 identified the need to reform the body of the text of the Constitution including:

Australians will need to walk together and talk together in order to achieve reform to the Constitution so that it truly reflects the heart and soul of the nation.