Sentences with phrase «constitutional limits»

The state will also argue that the bill involves affirmative state funding, and courts are often reluctant to put constitutional limits on government's ability to decide how to spend its money.

The legislature clearly has the power, within constitutional limits, to determine the rules of evidence.

The governor can issue an executive order within state law and state constitutional limits, similar to what the president can do and it's been debated nationally.

She has written and spoken on a wide range of judicial issues, particularly constitutional limits on government, the federal nomination process and state judicial selection.

A Kansas church that attracted nationwide attention for its angry, anti-gay protests at the funerals of U.S. military members has won its appeal at the Supreme Court, an issue testing the competing constitutional limits of free speech and privacy.

Charter schools are publicly funded, can not charge tuition and are bound to many of the same constitutional limits placed on traditional public schools.

The case being led by Texas and filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order announced by Obama last month violated constitutional limits on presidential powers.

The conception of inviolable human dignity, of constitutional limits upon central power, of equality under law, and of the free exchange of goods and services in markets is, again, part of a preliberal legacy.

The opening of the document clearly indicates that the demand for human freedom in society expressed in part through constitutional limits on government prompted the council fathers to return to the Catholic Church's treasury of sacred tradition.

Much time is spent with George Washington, who helped establish the significance of the chief executive while respecting constitutional limits.

Prior to this decision, Dawood indicates that electoral reform could occur based on the wording and structure of the Constitution Act, as long as it did not infringe constitutional limits.

Orin, I read the text and some Eighth Amendment precedents to place substantive constitutional limit on certain types of extreme criminal punishments, and I am eager for the Justices to develop those limits more robustly in the context on very long terms of imprisonment.

So far, established constitutional limits on the president's pardon power prevent it from affecting impeachment proceedings and bar it from being applicable to state crimes.

But longtime federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti wrote Tuesday that it doesn't mean no other constitutional limits exist; merely that they have not yet been tested.

Hence, it is almost inconceivable to them that Solzhenitsyn could hold traditional beliefs about God, Orthodox Christianity, the mystical basis of the Russian nation, and the soul's eternal destiny while also being a spokesman for responsible political freedom (meaning constitutional limits on power, moderate nationalism, private property, and local self «government).

Worse, debt contracts by «independent» authorities face fewer constitutional limits than borrowing by the state itself — which lets the slush - fund spending get even larger.

But what are constitutional limits when we have strained claims of underfunding based on dubious costing - out studies?

It almost seems determined to poison the well with Congress and play to the stereotype of a government unwilling to abide by constitutional limits.

Fundamental rights enforced by independent courts enrich a democracy that has set constitutional limits on itself.

Beginning in 1996, however, the Supreme Court started imposing constitutional limits on punitives.

After ignoring its oversight responsibilities for years, as the eleventh hour approaches before intelligence powers near their expiration, members cite national security concerns as a basis to ignore not only the need to conduct any oversight but also constitutional limits on executive power.

They add that while the tax is aimed at the wealthy, it is a «thinly veiled attempt to test the state constitutional limits of an income tax for all.»

Indeed, as the legislature's own non-partisan staff has already warned, it may violate constitutional limits on the legislature's authority to delegate its powers and duties to others.

Inviolable human dignity, constitutional limits upon central power, and equality under law are part of a preliberal legacy.

The Charter makes this decision for us by guaranteeing every citizen's right to vote and by expressly placing all citizens under the protective umbrella of the Charter through constitutional limits on the power of the government to limit a citizen's right to vote.

Fortunately, we are protected from that in the United States, where we have such strong constitutional limits on allowing religion into the public schools.

I do not readily see how the text of the Due Process clause places substantive constitutional limits on certain types of extreme punitive damage awards.

He again mentioned it in December, in remarks lamenting the constitutional limits on the president's power to deal with security threats.

He still comes in the midst of time to renew human beings and their communities, which are the objects of his love.18 Similarly, Bola Ige of Nigeria, after saying that there are people who want change to remain within the constitutional limits, said, «We do not need the past; we have got to throw it away - including, if necessary, those who held political power in the past».

Wise judges have always understood the prudential and constitutional limits of the judicial writ in a democratic society and for that reason have picked their targets carefully.

For his critics, these actions, combined particularly with his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, revealed him to be a lawless and tyrannical ruler, one who had no regard for the constitutional limits of his own power.

The implication is that Solzhenitsyn uses prudence rather than abstract ideology to choose the best regime for the circumstances, with the main requirements of good government being constitutional limits on power to prevent crushing tyranny and the promotion of a cultural climate that encourages citizens to develop their souls.

Indeed, between Adams Oshimhole and Kayode Fayemi, there are many parallels — beyond the fact that the one was pushing a protégée to succeed him after his constitutional limit of eight years; the other was seeking reelection after a first four - year term of hard and noble work.

The court was divided, with no clear majority, though five judges concurred that the governor had not exceeded in this particular instance the constitutional limits on what an appropriations bill can contain.

And if he exceeds those constitutional limits, he should be removed.»

«While we agree on many of the policy positions themselves, it is important to ensure that the constitutional limits on the Executive's powers are not exceeded,» the letter states.

As a constitutional president, there are constitutional limits to his powers.

It's impossible to come up with a loophole free law as there are constitutional limits on laws that discriminate against religion.

The Council said that while the city's debt issuance remains well below the constitutional limit of $ 98.2 billion, there are several factors that should be monitored since the city's debt service is projected to rise as a percentage of city revenues.

There are sound practical reasons for respecting these constitutional limits.

Through the 2008 — 09 school year, administrators have been considered in compliance if their schoolwide average class sizes were under the constitutional limits.

His most recent article, «Preferencing Choice: The Constitutional Limits,» is highly critical of state policies that continue to promote school choice at the expense of public schools and values.

Private schools can charge families tuition above and beyond what the state will cover and aren't bound by many of the constitutional limits placed on charter and traditional public schools.

States which place constitutional limits on taxes or which are fiscally conservative in their policies are far more likely to have fewer special education students than states with a strong history of funding social policies.