Sentences with phrase «constitutional language issues»

If it can be said to have a center of gravity, the major element is the Charter and the secondary element is constitutional language issues — this offsetting the fact that the all but invariant focus of the reference cases has been federalism questions.

Not exact matches

For political reasons rather than constitutional ones, the political question doctrine is likely to remain a troubling issue while constitutional language will not.

Larson brings readers into innards of the Constitutional Convention: the formation of committees to tackle issues such as presidential selection and executive power, debates on the power to tax and the length of the president's term and the crafting of language to meet the desires of both nationalists and their opponents.

The generality of the language contained in the Birmingham parade ordinance upon which the injunction was based would unquestionably raise substantial constitutional issues concerning some of its provisions.