Sentences with phrase «debate on the constitutional convention»

Benjamin spoke during a debate on the constitutional convention held at the Albany Times Union's Hearst Media Center in October.

Benjamin spoke during a debate on the constitutional convention at the Albany Times Union's Hearst Media Center in October.

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It can be pointed out that this is a reckless kind of polity — allowing the Court to define the nature and scope of political power on an ad hoc basis, without benefit of the debates of a legislative assembly or a constitutional convention, and without the contest of facts typical of an ordinary trial court.

At 6:30 p.m., former Assembly members Richard Brodsky and Jerry Kremer will debate one another on whether a constitutional convention is a good idea, «Richard French Live, RNN - TV and FIOS1 News.

Also at 7 p.m., the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club hosts a debate on the merits of a state constitutional convention, with United Federation of Teachers» Briget Rein and attorney Richard Emery, Hudson Guild, 441 W. 26th St., Manhattan.

Siena College hosted a debate today on a constitutional convention.

Groups that often find themselves on opposite sides of political debates have come together this year to oppose a constitutional convention in New York.

After reviewing many debates leading to constitutional convention defeats, I concluded that the debate discourse was often ill - informed, partly because of a lack of local experts on whom the press could rely for historical and comparative information about state constitutional conventions.

Adam White wrote on the Constitutional Convention's debate about Senate confirmations and allowing ambition to counteract ambition.

Larson brings readers into innards of the Constitutional Convention: the formation of committees to tackle issues such as presidential selection and executive power, debates on the power to tax and the length of the president's term and the crafting of language to meet the desires of both nationalists and their opponents.

«One weekend I sat down to read James Madison's notes on the debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, all 500 - plus pages, from cover to cover.

This is also confirmed by the preparatory documents of the European Convention on Article III ‑ 270 (4) of the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, (23) the provision which subsequently reappeared in the Constitutional Treaty as Article III - 365 (4); according to those documents, the wording «acts of general application» was debated in the Convention, but ultimately rejected and replaced by the more restrictive expression «regulatory act», which was intended to express the distinction between legislative and non-legislative acts.