Sentences with phrase «constitutional system of government»

(emphasis added)-RRB-; Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 265 - 66 (1986)(«[S] tare decisis... contributes to the integrity of our constitutional system of government, both in appearance and in fact.»

What makes America great is it's constitutional system of government with the conduct of its citizens...

Not exact matches

Speaking in Westminster Hall in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly about Britain's heritage of constitutional government: «Your common law tradition serves as the basis of legal systems in many parts of the world, and your particular vision of the respective remains an inspiration to many across the globe».

What the country desperately needs is a popular movement to rebuild the Constitutional system and subject the government once again to the discipline of checks and balances.

This shadow government, sanctioned and shielded by the Reagan Administration, has violated the separation of powers doctrine that is the bedrock of our constitutional system.

The American constitutional system stands in the way of coalition governments, but our last presidential election featured an anti-Trump consensus among elites that transcended traditional left vs. right distinctions — here, too, the establishment consensus failed to carry the day.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

The government that was set up after the Revolution went to considerable lengths to preserve those same rights, through the Constitutional system of «checks and balances», the Bill of Rights, prohibition against hereditary nobility, & c.

What may indeed turn out to be most significant about these proposals, in constitutional terms, is that they may create the impetus for a broader reformist agenda around the question of a more clearly delineated «English» dimension within the UK's system of parliamentary government.

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

The letter read in part: «To monitor Nigerians» access to social media solely on the basis that it may be used to express views critical of the government or the political social system espoused by the government is entirely incompatible and inconsistent with constitutional guarantees and Nigeria's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

But if they're not, which, it has to be said, sometimes happens, it's not an act of insurrection or a constitutional abomination [for perm secs to do so]-- it is exactly that tension which has created one of the best systems of government in the world.»

The legislation we have proposed will continue to benefit the people of Wales as the Government focuses on reducing the deficit and restoring economic stability, reducing and preventing crime, proposing constitutional reforms, and modernising the pension system.

«The Constitutional Convention movement was always about fundamentally reforming our broken system and transforming the state's government from an embarrassment into a proud model for the rest of the nation.»

Australia now enjoys all the desirable features of a republican government and a constitutional monarchy without any disadvantages of either system.

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.

The Coalition Agreement committed the present government to four major pieces of constitutional and electoral reform: a referendum on the AV voting system, the equalisation of constituency sizes, an elected House of Lords and five - year fixed - term Parliaments.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

At the UN, meanwhile, global «Climate» Czar Christiana Figueres told reporters that the Communist Chinese system of tyranny — where critics are simply jailed, re-educated, tortured, or executed; and the Communist Party controls all policy — was better suited to fighting «global warming» than America's constitutional traditions of self - government.

The necessary remedy is for the courts to use the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part I of The Constitutional Act, 1982), much more aggressively against governments and law societies because they control the resources necessary to make the justice system work adequately.

There is a real risk that such a disregard of the separation of powers and the constitutional role and institutional capacity of the different branches of government could undermine the legal aid system and cause a lack of public confidence in judges and the courts.

Great care must therefore be taken to consider each decision in the light of the circumstances of the case in view of which it was pronounced, especially in the interpretation of an Act such as the British North America Act, which was a great constitutional charter, and not to allow general phrases to obscure the underlying object of the Act, which was to establish a system of government upon essentially federal principles.

While that service possesses some distinctive attributes — constitutional status, part of the foundation of a democratic system of government, etc. — it still remains a service.

For one thing (and to harken back to my theme three columns ago), the ructions that are going on within the political branches of government remind us of just how critical a role respect for tradition plays in the constitutional systems of common law states.

-RRB-, the ructions that are going on within the political branches of government remind us of just how critical a role respect for tradition plays in the constitutional systems of common law states.

This takes us to the essence of Justice Stratas» reasoning here which is that in legal proceedings (judicial reviews in particular) under our Westminister system of government, an attorney general enjoys a presumptive right to intervene on the basis that public rights are vested in the Crown and an attorney general enforces those rights and represents the public interest: «Giving Attorneys General a broader right to apply to intervene in order to advance the public interest — as Rule 110 (c) does — is consistent with these foundational principles and constitutional arrangements.

The following provisions shall apply to States Parties which have a federal or non-unitary constitutional system: (a) with regard to the provisions of this Convention, the implementation of which comes under the legal jurisdiction of the federal or central legislative power, the obligations of the federal or central government shall be the same as for those States Parties which are not federal States; (b) with regard to the provisions of this Convention, the implementation of which comes under the jurisdiction of individual constituent States, countries, provinces or cantons which are not obliged by the constitutional system of the federation to take legislative measures, the federal government shall inform the competent authorities of such States, countries, provinces or cantons of the said provisions, with its recommendation for their adoption.

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».

Among her other writings were Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: A Story of Confusion, Attitudes in the Philadelphia Convention towards the British System of Government, Constitutional law — citing Canada's Constitution — problems and proposed solutions; If the queen were to abdicate: procedure under Canada's constitution; Ontario's courts, 1867 - 1987: conflicts and confusion; Parliament, the Executive and the Governor - General; Parliamentary privilege in Canada; Robert's Rules of Order: editions, reprints, and competitors; The Canada Act 1982 — some facts and comments; The Judiciary in Canada: the Third Branch of Government, and Defining Constitution of the Province — The Crux of the Manitoba Language Controversy.

, but whatever happens in the end, and regardless of whether the coalition loses its nerve, given Mr. Harper's unilateral delay of the confidence vote (contrary to his readiness to hold «confidence» votes in the last Parliament, taking advantage of the Liberals» reluctance to go to the polls), and whether the Liberal leadership candidates can indeed work together, the last week or so has been a wonderful lesson — and reminder — about our system of government and its constitutional cleverness.