Sentences with phrase «constitutional reform»

The challenge is therefore to maintain the momentum, whether by getting manifesto commitments from parties or exploring options for pilots to include citizen voices in the process of constitutional reform.

Last year, the chair of the political and constitutional reform committee called the lobbying bill «a dogs breakfast».

We also have an exciting process unfolding as the push for constitutional reform enters its next phase in the coming year.

In Chapter 2 of this Report I discuss constitutional reform in detail and will not repeat that here.

The political and constitutional reform select committee is expected to publish a report in the next few weeks which meets this concern.

Constitutional reform processes by their nature form an integral part of building a nation's identity.

So it goes with constitutional reform, which has taken a back seat compared to its prominence in 2010.

There are various bits that make up the mosaic of this Government's political and constitutional reform agenda.

It is quite true that he has thought about constitutional reform for two decades.

Nowhere has this been more true than over constitutional reform.

This is what it's like when you start discussing constitutional reform.

Constitutional reform proposals should provide constitutional recognition subject to clearly defined amendment processes.

And, by attempting to tie the plans in with wider constitutional reform, the prime minister is introducing another excuse for delay.

The problem is constitutional reform doesn't win votes at the best of times, and it certainly doesn't win votes during a recession.

I mention them here, not because I expect immediate answers, but to illustrate the complexities involved in any basic constitutional reform.

That is in the best tradition of British constitutional reform.

«We are happy to work with them on shared issues like constitutional reform,» said one.

As with the arguments surrounding constitutional reform this places greater importance on a short term political battle than on the broader implications for the integrity and functionality of the parliamentary system.

That's why in many cases constitutional reform requires a two thirds majority, or a turn - out threshold.

The Conservatives have learned how unpleasant the alternative is - but too late to change the ultimate fate of this government's constitutional reform car crash.

And a «Yes» vote will necessarily trigger wide - ranging constitutional reforms.

The problem relates to another contentious coalition constitutional reform - boundary changes.

The problem is that, as a traditional driver of voting intention, constitutional reform ranks behind just about every other measure you can think of - even more so in a recession.

A coalition of parliamentary and constitutional reform organisations has urged the government and MPs to implement the reforms before a general election.

No government knowingly announces constitutional reforms of which it will be a victim.

That we see the reform of collective responsibility so that it is workable in coalition governments as an important constitutional reform.

Talk of far - reaching constitutional reform will not get them going in the Dog and Duck, but the expenses crisis has triggered a genuine call for change.

Or come up with a long - term constitutional reform.

With more than 100,000 votes cast in the campaign's open poll on ideas to change the system, it is pursuing the people's top constitutional reforms.

[172] This is an option for Australian constitutional reform that I believe warrants further consideration.

Furthermore, for all the debate, the government did not achieve much on constitutional reform.

MPs on the political and constitutional reform committee are frustrated because the government has provided very limited engagement with them on the proposals.

This convention represented the first attempt by any Irish government to provide for a citizen - led programme of constitutional reform.

And the coalition's constitutional reform agenda has been at least partly to blame.

He examines the wide - ranging proposals for constitutional reform, which were in the coalition agreement.

If the government is serious about constitutional reform - whether with respect to the judiciary or the senate then it can work with the provinces to amend the constitution.

That prompted complaints from shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David, who asked Young: «How on earth can we have constructive dialogue if there no mutual respect?»

I didn't, but I've often felt since that this is what our friends in the media do on such subjects as constitutional reform in general and Lords reform in particular.

The coalition Lib - Lab government would either need to appoint new peers (who presumably would vote to abolish their new jobs in a combined Constitutional Reform Bill that would include an elected Senate), or use the Parliament Acts to override objections from Peers.

Decentralising Westminster power - Decentralising power from Westminster to the regions, including constitutional reform for England, Wales and Scotland.

A major constitutional reform plan, which included a proposal to move the federal capital to Patagonia in an attempt to decentralise the state, had to be shelved for good.

Given the concessions on electoral reform and fixed term parliaments that the Conservatives were forced to make as part of the Coalition Government, they are unlikely to allow themselves to be pushed into other constitutional reforms in the immediate future.

The convention must be deliberately broad, he argued, to avoid the «pick and mix approach» that has «bedevilled» past attempts at constitutional reform.

[T] his means that the existing State has the duty to accommodate the aspirations of indigenous peoples through constitutional reforms designed to share power democratically.

Brown, scrambling to assemble a more radical final year agenda, is in a race against time to revive his becalmed constitutional reform programme.

The Coalition Government formed in May 2010 proposed a series of further constitutional reforms in their coalition agreement.