Sentences with phrase «constitutional changes»

The Convention supported an in - principle resolution that Australia should become a republic and recommended that the «bipartisan appointment of the President model» and other related constitutional changes be put to the Australian people at a referendum.

Constitutional changes that provide protection against discrimination in the Australian Constitution.

Rather, much of these contractual discussions centre around questions concerning governance models, constitutional changes, budget expenditure against unreported items, employee fractions on projects and other related things.

The select committee agreed with Lord Justice Thomas that such major constitutional changes required «a proper, open examination so that we could have something that Parliament was content with, the judiciary was content with and the executive was content with» (para 41).

Within two or three years of its election victory, the government introduced major constitutional changes: devolution of powers to new legislative bodies in Scotland and Wales; the Human Rights Act 1998; and the disqualification of the great majority of hereditary peers from participating in the legislative functions of the House of Lords.

Let's not forget a previous posting from Slaw discussing the first» crowd - sourced» Constitution as Iceland proposes further constitutional changes through public input by way of Twitter and Facebook.

Those were constitutional changes of a fundamental nature, but there are no such changes here.

Bright went on to explain that the team has been handling Brexit - type issues for some time now in the context of the constitutional changes already underway within the UK — for example, advising The Crown Estate on the implementation of the new Scottish devolution settlement.

There are three proposed constitutional changes being debated / amended as of this writing, all heading in different directions.

The federal government declares itself ready to discuss any constitutional changes that are proposed.

Constitutional reform is unlikely to feature prominently on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's immediate agenda, as he was the only leader of a major party whose proposals for the Senate did not require constitutional changes.

The resulting transformation of legal life will be surprising and sudden only if we compare its pace with that of constitutional changes in Canada.

Subsequently, several constitutional changes were enacted to expand representative government.

UK - regulated forex brokerage ActivTrades announced it is hiking its margin requirements on some instruments in connection to the upcoming referendum on constitutional changes in Italy on December 4.

Such fragmented negotiations would continue to occur with a merger, but the constitutional changes would create a «charter school division» inside the CTU's ranks and represent teachers through what leaders have described as a single federated union.

Party conference next year, if not this year, will be asked to make constitutional changes to allow easier deselection of MPs, if they appear to be sufficiently ideologically impure, in the eyes of the leadership.

He has set out a 100 - day action plan to clean up Commons expenses and speed up key constitutional changes.

Constitutional changes should be done fairly and consensually, to ensure that everyone given a voice.

«These constitutional changes to the Lords should require a referendum, but delivering a referendum on this without delivering one on Europe would be a massive headache for the government,» he said.

J Hutchings, I agree, the Conservatives seem to have no more ambition than to be camp followers to Labours constitutional changes.

The legislature will go through the motions of debating the constitutional changes, but there is virtually no chance that the handpicked delegates will oppose them in large numbers when they vote.

In what historians on the panel characterized as a «fatal error,» the convention decided to put its proposed constitutional changes — including the creation of an independent redistricting panel — in a «take - it - or - leave - it» package rejected by a statewide vote.

Linking the two separate constitutional changes was «clever politics,» said Tim Montgomerie, the influential editor of the Conservative Home news and comment website.

DeFrancisco said he believes it would be more practical for the state legislature to offer propositions for constitutional changes, which voters could decide on individually as separate ballot measures.

David Cameron's use of the Lords in the past few months — packing it with peers to vote through his constitutional changes — shows again why that is so necessary.

Those supporting the idea say constitutional changes could overhaul campaign finance, combat corruption and change the way the state oversees education, health care, and social services.

While the Corbyn surge and the tripling of numbers entitled to vote flowed from changes made in the procedure, the thinking behind the leadership selection has lapsed behind the constitutional changes made and being made by the coalition government and its Tory successor, most importantly the Fixed - term Parliaments Act.

Constitutional changes now being embraced by Cameron — fixed - term parliaments, a referendum on the Alternative Vote (ok not embraced, but put forward)-- are positive.

What seems like a relatively simple concept is full of exceptions and technicalities, and it is very doubtful whether it is possible without other, more radical, constitutional changes.

The protests subsided following a series of political reforms including constitutional changes that saw King Mohamed VI give up some of his wide - ranging powers.

But earlier this year, more than 60 percent of voters signed a petition calling for constitutional changes to be drafted that would allow Kagame to stand again.

The proposed constitutional changes were passed last week by lawmakers in the lower house.

At all events, proper dialogue and any desired constitutional changes should take place in a rational manner, at the National and State Assemblies.

After constitutional changes in 2010, Angola does not directly elect a president, but the leader of the winning party automatically becomes head of state.

Gordon Brown has briefed the Cabinet on planned constitutional changes which could see the first - past - the - post voting system scrapped in favour of alternative vote (AV).

The move comes as Ms May attempts to push through Brexit, one of the most difficult constitutional changes the country has ever seen, without having ever won a personal mandate at the ballot box.

Dadey admits the measure is not perfect, but he says the constitutional changes provide a strong basis for court challenges, if lawmakers still try to take advantage and draw districts that benefit the political parties in power.

Voters approved the constitutional changes made in the 1938 convention, the last time the event was successful.

It strengthens the NPL now view, but does not clinch it, as the major affiliated unions and other bodies are likely to stick with Labour, at least until the election, unless constitutional changes which effectively end union affiliation come into force before then.

we who must approve any constitutional changes a convention may recommend.

However, the tacit co-operation between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown's Liberal Democrats in 1997 was the basis of great electoral success and forged a parliamentary combination supporting major constitutional changes including devolution and the introduction of the Human Rights Act.

The use of petitions is most commonly associated with forms of direct legislation in California (and other US states) and Switzerland, where successful petitions generate a popular ballot on potential legislative and constitutional changes.

but argued that, given the lack of trust in politicians, the question should really be «why should the now - unavoidable constitutional changes be left to politicians?»

The convention would meet, and present its proposed constitutional changes to voters in another referendum in 2019.

Constitutional changes are decided by a majority vote at the conference.

The coalition would be ideologically diverse, and would agree to (1) set up PR, (2) set up a citizens convention to look into other constitutional changes, and (3) hold another general election (under PR, obviously).

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

The general practice is to move to larger majority requirements for issues of larger significance, such as constitutional changes.

The people have, on the whole, been little interested, and perhaps even unaware of the wide - ranging nature of constitutional changes that have been introduced... during the 1997 election campaign, the British people were asked by the opinion research organisation, MORI, to rate the priority of various issues, they put constitutional issues 14th out of 14.

Conservatives accept their opposition to Lords reform could cost them another of the coalition's constitutional changes - the reduction in the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs and equalisation of constituency sizes.