Sentences with phrase «constitutional convention when»

You can do this by endorsing and fully supporting a «Yes» vote for a constitutional convention when it appears on the electoral ballot this coming November.»

The governor said the next route is to hold a constitutional convention when the next opportunity comes up in a couple of years.

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When the nation was established as a democratic republic, the people of the former English colonies, acting in their various constitutional conventions, transferred all governing power to their states and to the federal government, reserving for themselves only certain rights and powers they previously claimed to enjoy as subjects of the British Crown.

As a politician, when the country was again returning to constitutional rule in 1992, the former Presidential Guard and others formed the People's National Convention (PNC) with Dr Limann again as the presidential candidate.

Both advocate the 16 - year - old vote, a constitutional convention, House of Lords reform, and an in / out referendum on EU membership when a proposed treaty change would transfer (substantial) powers to Europe.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

When the former Labour first minister Donald Dewar signed up for a Scottish constitutional convention in 1989, he said it had become necessary for Scots to live a little dangerously.

But while the questions of who participates and on what topics are critical, I want to throw open a different kind of question: when — that is, at whose discretion — should a constitutional convention be established?

The 1894 constitutional convention seemed ready to recommend an increase, to $ 3,000, but backed down when delegates realized a raise, coupled with a planned increase in the number of legislators, would have put the state on the hook for a then - whopping $ 600,000 per year.

The last proposal for the Constitutional Convention was in 1997, when voters reasonably decided against it.

The numbers are a change from earlier in the year, when a poll showed the majority of voters said they were in favor of holding a constitutional convention, despite the fact that they had not heard much about it.

When the Conservatives lost the 1997 Election, the New Labour government converted the Constitutional Convention's proposals into a White Paper and a referendum of the Scottish people was held on 11 September 1997.

The last time New York actually passed amendments proposed by the constitutional convention was 1938 when they voted for six of nine sets of amendments (there were actually 57 amendments but they were organized in nine different questions).

Since the Constitution doesn't dictate neither when ratification of an amendment expires nor when application for a Constitutional Convention expires, it follows that unless Congress has established a deadline, an application for a Convention is pending indefinitely.

But alternative models exist (for example, inter parliamentary talks); and there is no single model for a constitutional convention (see Alan Renwick's excellent pamphlet, and Fournier et al's book When citizens decide: Lessons from citizens» assemblies on electoral reform OUP 2011).

When it comes to establishing a constitutional convention — which voters will consider this November in a referendum — the vast majority haven't heard anything about it.

A recent poll by Siena College found that, when New Yorkers were told about the constitutional convention, 69 percent were in favor of it.

«He broke all the promises, the major promise being to move the constitutional convention vote up to 2011 when he was extremely popular,» Samuels said.

DeFrancisco told syracuse.com in an interview that a constitutional convention next year would likely have the same result as in 1967, when voters ultimately turned down the initiatives that came out of the convention as a single ballot proposition.

When New York voters go to the polls this fall to consider a Constitutional Convention, I sincerely hope they exercise this critical and essential right.

«When you put the entire state constitution up for grabs in a state constitutional convention, it is an invitation to the horse trading that is like Albany par excellence,» Lieberman said.

NEW YORK CITY — Don't forget to flip over your ballot when you go to vote on Nov. 7 — in addition to choosing a mayor, New Yorkers will decide if they will hold a constitutional convention in 2017.

The event, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute and the state Bar Association, looked to November 2017, when voters will be asked whether to hold what would be the state's 10th Constitutional Convention since 1777.

Like other lawmakers, Flanagan, of Long Island, has also argued that a constitutional convention would cost millions of dollars at a time when New York has other, more pressing needs, and it is unlikely to produce much change.

When Vanguard split during the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, Empey joined the breakaway group which formed the United Ulster Unionist Party, serving as the party's deputy leader from 1977 until its dissolution in 1984.

This is the date, in 1787, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution.

Benjamin Franklin's response, when asked what kind of government had been decided upon by the delegates to the Constitutional convention, is a pointed reminder that self - rule must never be taken for granted — and of the historic longshot American democracy represents.

2) apart from the fact that CJEU stated that even before EU exercising its power, the MS must still act - when they have the power to do so - in a matter which does not jeopardise or prejudice the EU, so that the mere «potential» competence does have an effect, limitating the MS action, the parallel is that a negative rule is still a rule, so that the existence of the rule makes the matter «regulated»: - as for the JHA, I must say that whilst I agree with you on the merits, I can see the issue raised by the CJEU, since it is quite the same raised by some national Constitutional Courts, i.e. that ECHR standards may be in conflict with national standards and formally speaking the ECHR is a treaty and therefore has a lower rank that national Constititions, and the decision of the ECHR on the interpretation of such standards within the context of the Convention does not bind the national Constitutional Court in interpreting the national Constitution standards: e.g..