Sentences with phrase «constitutional supremacy»

The Court wrote «that with the adoption of the Charter, the Canadian system of government was transformed to a significant extent from a system of Parliamentary supremacy to one of constitutional supremacy».

The constitutional supremacy provision, Section 52 (1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, states that «any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect.»

The Charter imposed additional restrictions on legislatures, but it did not «transform» the constitutional system, which was already one of «constitutional supremacy» under the Constitution Act, 1867.

The first is that the addition of section 52 (1) in 1982 transformed Canada from a state governed by parliamentary supremacy into a state governed by constitutional supremacy.

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This only changed after the Glorious Revolution, when a constitutional settlement gave Parliament supremacy — significantly reducing the king's role and making the monarch subject to the law.

The idea of judicial supremacy — or the idea that the supremacy of the Constitution entails judicial supremacy in constitutional interpretation — has come to be so widely held not only in the legal profession but also by the public at large that today it seems unremarkable.

It was that the decision threatened to undermine the basic principles of republican government precisely by establishing judicial supremacy in matters of constitutional interpretation.

In Jefferson's letter of September 28, 1820 to William C. Jarvis, from which I quoted earlier his line about judicial «despotism,» he explained his opposition to judicial supremacy in constitutional interpretation as follows:

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

And that means we need a reformed constitutional settlement between the two legislatures with a new Parliament Act that removes the supremacy of the Commons.

Downing Street will on Tuesday outline plans for a «rapid review» that will examine ways to guarantee that the House of Commons always has supremacy on financial matters, after the prime minister accused peers of breaking a constitutional convention.

Instead, my passion emanates almost entirely from a fervent and deeply held belief in the supremacy of our constitutional principles and the corresponding duty of every American citizen to defend these liberties when they are under assault.

I believe that thanks to the national constitutional doctrines on the «conditional» primacy of EU law (on the «conditional supremacy» of EU law in the UK, see the post by Garner on this blog) as well as to the corresponding EU provisions — the constitutional identity clause in Article 4 (2) TEU and the authorisation to apply higher national standards of fundamental rights in Article 53 CFR — national constitutional or apex courts can provide necessary checks and balances on the ECJ enormous judicial power.

The Litigation Center also regularly participates in cases that present important constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers, due process rights, unreasonable searches and seizures, property rights, federal preemption under the Supremacy Clause, free speech, and many other issues.

The Constitutional Court has also held that the duty of the legislature and other lawmaking subjects to revise all legal acts adopted by them before the entry into effect of the Constitution and which still remain in force, also the legal acts adopted by no longer existing institutions after the entry into effect of the Constitution and still remaining in force, which regulate the relations which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of a corresponding law - making subject, as well as legal acts, which had been adopted before the restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and remained in force after restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and, after the entry into effect of the Constitution, regulate the relationships, which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of an appropriate legislative subject, and assess their conformity with the Constitution within a reasonably short period, stems from the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution, and the constitutional principle of a state under the rule of law (the Constitutional Court's ruling of 29 Constitutional Court has also held that the duty of the legislature and other lawmaking subjects to revise all legal acts adopted by them before the entry into effect of the Constitution and which still remain in force, also the legal acts adopted by no longer existing institutions after the entry into effect of the Constitution and still remaining in force, which regulate the relations which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of a corresponding law - making subject, as well as legal acts, which had been adopted before the restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and remained in force after restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and, after the entry into effect of the Constitution, regulate the relationships, which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of an appropriate legislative subject, and assess their conformity with the Constitution within a reasonably short period, stems from the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution, and the constitutional principle of a state under the rule of law (the Constitutional Court's ruling of 29 constitutional principle of a state under the rule of law (the Constitutional Court's ruling of 29 Constitutional Court's ruling of 29 October 2003).

In this context, it should be mentioned that, as it has been held by the Constitutional Court, the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution implies also a duty of the legislature and other lawmaking subjects to revise legal acts which were passed before the entry into effect of the Constitution, while taking account of norms and principles of the Constitution, and to ensure a harmonious hierarchical system of legal acts which regulate the same relations (the Constitutional Court's rulings of 3 December 1997, 6 May 1998, 29 October 2003, and 5 March 2004).

The supremacy principle is that when the domestic law of a member state conflicts with EU law, it is EU law that takes priority: «From an EU law perspective, the principle is an uncompromising one: the CJEU [Court of Justice] has confirmed that EU law has priority over all forms of domestic law, including provisions found in Member States» constitutions and in constitutional bills of rights.»

First, the approach taken by the German Constitutional Court years ago in respect of the supremacy of EU law over German constitutional fundamental rights, often described as the solange approach, seems to me to be well merited when it comes to addressing the relationship between national law and inteConstitutional Court years ago in respect of the supremacy of EU law over German constitutional fundamental rights, often described as the solange approach, seems to me to be well merited when it comes to addressing the relationship between national law and inteconstitutional fundamental rights, often described as the solange approach, seems to me to be well merited when it comes to addressing the relationship between national law and international law.

If the Supreme Court were to act thus it would be asserting an authority over Parliament that is flatly ruled out by our constitutional tradition: an assertion of judicial supremacy of this kind would be a coup not a judgment.

If state courts are the authoritative expositors of state law, and they choose, as a matter of state procedural law, to be bound by a federal precedent that isn't otherwise binding as a matter of federal law, I don't see how that raises any kind of federal constitutional concern under the Supremacy Clause.

As noted by Barbara Guastaferro, the assumption that the purpose of the clause is that of applying in exceptional cases of conflicts between EU law and domestic constitutional law — in an attempt to narrow the scope of application of the supremacy doctrine — has to be challenged; while the potential for a use of the clause in governing the ordinary functioning of EU law should be, on the contrary, highlighted.

For one thing, the constitution does not «recognize the «supremacy of Parliament»» — those words appear nowhere in the Constitution Acts, and while Parliamentary sovereignty is arguably one of the constitution's underlying principles, it is subject to the limits imposed by constitutional text and other such principles.

With its surprising subsequent history taught as part of the case, Cooper works better as a demonstration of how complex the constitutional system can be, rather than as a demonstration of the supremacy of judicial interpretation.

1) we agree to disagree:) 2) supremacy of EU law for the EU system is the equivalent of the hard core of constitutional values that some national Courts defend against EU (and ECHR)- it is not a matter of «legitimacy» or «patriotism» but of using a «lower rank» instrument (accession treaty) to interfere with a treaty rule: the identical issue is for States who have a «rigid» constitution (alike the Treaty binds the CIEU): the accession treaty to ECHR or EU has a «lower rank» than the Constitution itself, so that the national Constitutional Court can not accept it can derogate to a higher ranking rule - usually they will find a way to reconcile the «construction» of the two set of rules, but if they are requested of an opinion on the point of principle, they will always say that in the very end, if all other paths have been explored to avoid the conflict, eventually it is the Constitution and neither ECHR nor EUwconstitutional values that some national Courts defend against EU (and ECHR)- it is not a matter of «legitimacy» or «patriotism» but of using a «lower rank» instrument (accession treaty) to interfere with a treaty rule: the identical issue is for States who have a «rigid» constitution (alike the Treaty binds the CIEU): the accession treaty to ECHR or EU has a «lower rank» than the Constitution itself, so that the national Constitutional Court can not accept it can derogate to a higher ranking rule - usually they will find a way to reconcile the «construction» of the two set of rules, but if they are requested of an opinion on the point of principle, they will always say that in the very end, if all other paths have been explored to avoid the conflict, eventually it is the Constitution and neither ECHR nor EUwConstitutional Court can not accept it can derogate to a higher ranking rule - usually they will find a way to reconcile the «construction» of the two set of rules, but if they are requested of an opinion on the point of principle, they will always say that in the very end, if all other paths have been explored to avoid the conflict, eventually it is the Constitution and neither ECHR nor EUwhich prevails.

The Court of Appeals correctly identified the constitutional standard for determining whether § 36 - 820, as construed by the Tennessee courts to authorize an award of a veteran's disability benefits as child support, conflicts with federal law, and is therefore preempted under the Supremacy Clause.