Sentences with phrase «constitutional reform does»

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

Unsurprisingly, constitutional reform does not figure prominently in the party manifestos for the May general election.

9) Constitutional reform Do you support the need for referenda on all EU treaties?

Not exact matches

As Compton carefully explains, the court's rulings on moral reform did not lead directly to the New Deal decisions that dealt the final blow to constitutional limitations on federal power.

On the other hand Menem and Fujimori have had to innovate this by urgently instituting legislations, constitutional reforms or doing coups d'etat.

It should not be surprising, therefore, that the parties» manifestos do not put constitutional reform front and centre.

[1] The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

Graham Allen, the Labour Chairman of the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, has led his colleagues through the possible ways of doing so if Parliament and people so wished.

[i] «The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

Does he recall that on 19 April, in answer to my questions, he told the Select Committee on Political and Constitutional Reform that there was «no link» between the two issues?

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

«It sounds like the governor is saying «I'm incapable of reforming Albany and we have to leave it up to a constitutional convention,» and I don't know that he is wrong.»

«I don't think they have helped themselves with bloodcurdling threats about withdrawing support for other constitutional reform of the House of Commons,» Bray told Channel 4 News.

It's a huge coalition, and it really illustrates the old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows because you have the New York Civil Liberties Union, some reform groups, some environmental groups, and then you have the Conservative party, gun rights groups, they're all together on this, saying that they don't want a constitutional convention.

If it does, politics, not least the politics of constitutional reform, will be the loser, and the white paper on Lords reform shows why.

Skelos has raised constitutional concerns about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's redistricting reform bill, and has been roundly criticized by the Democrats for doing so.

«The simple fact that ministers failed to recognise the profound constitutional importance of the legislative and regulatory reform bill does not inspire confidence that they would not use delegated powers to introduce constitutional change in the future, without even realising what they are doing.

However, the plans still do not address concerns raised by the constitutional affairs select committee last summer that any fundamental reform of the coroners system must include a change in the way deaths are certified.

There has also been a lot of fighting over redistricting reform, with the Senate GOP (and the IDC) passing a constitutional amendment bill that Koch says does not meet NY Uprising standards.

Wayne David, shadow constitutional affairs minister, said: «We are in favour of Lords reform, but the government plans do not set out a stable, coherent long - term relationship between the two houses.

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

The incoming majority Conservative government has opted to abolish the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, which unlike the other commons committees does not exist on a statutory basis.

He said Labour could not rely on past successes to win future elections, but had to spell out what they would do on issues like the environment, home ownership, constitutional reform and childcare.

Unfortunately, under the so - called reform that the governor extracted as part of the redistricting agreement, the proposed constitutional amendment to change New York's process will do nothing to reform the problem of unequal representation.

This is not an acceptable state of affairs for a modern democracy, and it is why the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee decided to look into why voter engagement in the UK has declined in recent decades, and what can be done to reverse this trend.

A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.

· Debating individual reform proposals is always going to risk them getting bogged down in minutiae like AV did: tie them all together and you might actually have a shot at a more serious and more meaningful exploration of the many constitutional problems that we face.

If a minority Labour government was relying on Tory votes to get things through that the Nats didn't like, there is always a danger that the Tories could resort to the sort of tactics Labour themselves often used in such situations (such as constitutional reform).

Please be aware that by this, it does not automatically mean «the same», since, unlike the Constitutional Treaty, the Reform Treaty does not repeal existing Treaties but it amends the Treaty of Rome (economic powers) and Maastricht Treaty (European government) into a Union with a self - amending text.

In its report, the Constitution Committee rejects the notion that the tax credits affair amounted to a «constitutional crisis» and says that a «single Government defeat... does not seem a sound foundation upon which to base significant and lasting reform» in this area.

But while Cameron's administration seems to have fallen out with the Upper House, don't expect constitutional reform back on the agenda.

But don't think this breakdown in relations means a great constitutional rush on the government benches to reform.

It's important to think hard about states, which have constitutional authority over K - 12 and provide most of the money, but historically have done little to drive reform efforts.

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 constitutConstitutional 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 constitutionalconstitutional changes.

However, he did criticise as «broad and ill - defined» a statutory requirement (s 2 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) that the Lord Chancellor have experience as a Minister, be an MP or Peer, a legal practitioner, a university law teacher and any other experience the prime minister considers relevant.

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.

Constitutional Islamic law reform is an enormously complicated subject, and few do it justice.

While the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 requires that treaties are laid before the Houses of Parliament for a period of 21 days before they are ratified, the ability of the Government to ratify treaties remains a prerogative power, as does the power to amend or withdraw from treaties.

By analogy, the US oath of allegiance, which requires immigrants (and others) to «support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States» (with the Constitution playing the role in the US that the Monarchy does here) does not preclude you from advocating that the Constitution be changed or reformed, it just mandates that you do so in a manner that is in keeping with the US legal and constitutional order.

Constitutional Law: Senate Reform Senate Reference (Order in Council P.C. 2013 - 70, Feb. 1, 2013)(35203) Apr. 25, 2014 Parliament can not unilaterally achieve most of the proposed changes to the Senate, requiring the consent of at least seven provinces representing, in the aggregate, at least half of the population of all the provinces; abolition requires consent of all of the provinces and can only be done with unanimous federal - provincial consensus.

In a nutshell, it is a review of the Court's engagement with constitutional conventions, from the 1930s and into the early 21st century — I don't discuss the Reference re Senate Reform, 2014 SCC 32, [2014] 1 SCR 704, because that discussion would have required a separate, and longer, paper.

And now that we're on the topic of doctors and tobacco, Texas Magistrate says that Texas» brutal, anti-patient tort reform law, which «capped medical liability for non-economic damages at $ 250,000, doesn't violate victims» constitutional rights.»

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However, I do want to reaffirm my belief that constitutional reform will form a central part of the reconciliation journey.

While the Court ruled that the health reform act's individual mandate provision requiring all Americans to have health coverage could not be supported under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, the majority held that the tax imposed on those who don't buy insurance is constitutional under the taxing powers granted Congress.

In its 5 - 4 ruling, the Supreme Court said the health reform act's individual mandate provision, requiring individuals to have health coverage, could not be supported under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, but the majority held that the tax imposed on those who don't buy insurance is constitutional under the taxing powers granted Congress.