Sentences with phrase «designed as a constitutional»

These United States were designed as a Constitutional Republic.

The USA was designed as a Constitutional Republic, with checks - and - balances between the branches of the federal government, and also division of power between federal state and local governments.

Not exact matches

They would be allowed to design the districts as they pleased to respond to the 2010 census, but would have to pass a constitutional amendment to reform the process for the next census in 2020.

Four previous examples of constitutional conventions / citizens» assemblies were then evaluated against these criteria as options the UK could draw upon in the process of designing its own: Scotland (late 1980s), Iceland (2011), Canada (British Columbia 2004 and Ontario 2006) and Ireland (2012 - 14).

The public relations firms» suit claims the rules violate the First Amendment as well as constitutional due - process protections «by unlawfully subjecting public relations firms like the plaintiffs to a disclosure and punishment regime designed for true lobbyists, when all they are doing is speaking to the press about public issues.

Second, by not identifying the designer as God, the intelligent design movement sought to immunize the position from constitutional scrutiny: The idea was to purge creationism of its overt religiosity, so that intelligent design could succeed where creation science failed.»

But charter advocates said they believe the law is constitutional, and condemned the lawsuit as an intimidation tactic «designed to preserve a broken status quo and scare our teacher, families and students.»

From a CEI write - up «The Supreme Court held in Armstrong v. United States that the Constitutional prohibition on uncompensated takings «was designed to bar government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.»

As two extreme left - wing Constitutional law professors (Obama voters) have come to realize, «Obama's Become The Very Danger The Constitution Was Designed To Avoid».

Keramet Reiter's research goes even further to suggest that limited judicial intervention on prisoner isolation in the 1960s and 1970s may have contributed to the modern supermax, as department of corrections officials designed «constitutional» modes of segregation in response to legal challenges.

Hughes sought heroically to design a doctrinal solution to the constitutional problems posed by an administrative state in which judges were charged, as Hughes saw it, with the duty to maintain an appropriate balance between courts and the newly - proliferating agencies.

The historical practice of allowing state courts leeway to interpret independently the Federal Constitution reflected the importance of state courts in our constitutional design and the benefits that accrue to the system as a whole when individual state courts are able to make different choices.

In its ruling, the court cited the constitutional right to privacy of U.S. citizens, saying Ashcroft's policy «was not reasonably designed or «consistent with the need of the United States to obtain, produce, or disseminate foreign intelligence information»» as mandated by FISA.

Mark has taught Political Science and Law related classes as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Politics Program at Marymount College of Fordham University, teaching and designing courses in Constitutional Law and Civil Rights, The American Judicial Process, American Government, and Public Policy Making.