Sentences with phrase «draft constitution»

Article 235 of the new draft constitution addressed this longstanding complaint, where permission to build or repair required presidential and security authorization.

They had insisted on lawyers, professors and others considered the elites in society to rather draft the constitution.

A new draft constitution is also set to be unveiled detailing the key goals and what the public are entitled to from the health service.

Additionally while I was away, the New Columbia Statehood Commission drafted a Constitution for DC and put a referendum on the November 8th ballot.

The exclusion of the Church from the committee for drafting the constitution of the European Union and the growing pressure to exclude the Vatican from the UN are symptoms of the same phenomenon and will have similar if not worse results.

The early decision was to draft a constitution providing for democratic club rule and an extremely anti-patronage policy, with the intention of contesting the party leadership in a race for district leader against incumbant DeSapio — easily the most important Democrat at that time in the state — in the 1957 party primary.

New York Times: A Vague Role for Religion in Egyptian Draft Constitution After months of fierce debate over the place of Islam in government, the assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt has settled on a compromise that opens the door to more religion in governance but mainly guarantees that the issue will continue to roil politics, the Parliament and the courts for many years to come.

According to the «referendum law» passed in the Catalan Parliament, a YES vote (no participation threshold) is enough for passing a declaration of independence and kick - start a gradual process to exit Spain (including drafting a constitution and build the new institutions).

In a nice twist on the American Revolution theme, the Catenas rebels drafted their constitution in England.

Egypt's controversial draft constitution goes up for vote this Saturday, and whatever happens, it will have implications for religious freedom, political future, democratic opportunity, social justice and more.

Others find a moral preoccupation, almost obsession, in most of them, when they were not busy drafting a constitution.

Egypt's Christians are also concerned about the country's newly drafted constitution, which was written by an Islamist - dominated assembly.

The group however noted that President Buhari as one of the Leaders who Physically identified and related with PRONACO to produce a peoples» draft constitution during its independently convoked citizens» driven Peoples National Conference, PNC for national restructuring between 2004 and 2006 is more likely to tow the line of restructuring as he was deemed to understand the positive import of a successful political restructuring on the country's development

Fast - forward through this brutal occupation to Timor's independence 25 years later, and when drafting the constitution, the new government chose Portuguese and Tetun, a Portuguese creole lingua franca, as the two official languages.

Health secretary Alan Johnson said the new draft constitution would make it clear that patients are entitled to Nice drugs if they require the treatment.

I wonder if the members are picked from the moon, people who are totally oblivious of the country they, re trying to draft constitution for or how do they suddenly go out of touch with the challenging issues on the ground.

I have advised a number of NHS foundation trusts and CCGs on their governance arrangements, on the scope and limitations of their powers, and in drafting their constitutions.

«But the prize for this week's liberal obtuseness about the Constitution goes to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told an Egyptian television audience that «I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.»

Church members on the constituent assembly, which was elected by parliament to draft the constitution, walked out weeks before the completion of the draft document, citing concerns about articles they said «contradict the principles of citizenship.»

«The draft constitution will address this by making it explicit that patients have the right to Nice - approved drugs if clinically appropriate,» he added.

The draft constitution was affirmed by the people of Iceland in a referendum, but the result was non-binding and so parliament was able to ignore it.

EU leaders are today expected to formally set themselves a 2008 deadline to decide on what to do with the draft constitution rejected by the Dutch and French next year.

The government authorised an elected assembly that considered online input by citizens and produced a draft constitution over a period of just 3 to 4 months.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

After kidnapping the Yemeni President's Chief of Staff on 19 January, in the following days they went on to besiege the Presidential Palace and demand changes to Yemen's new draft constitution.

The Met has distributed a draft constitution to all ward panels which includes a clause barring local councillors from voting rights.

We also hope to present a draft constitution for SLF (S), putting our organisation on a regular footing with an elected committee and officials.

• There are tentative plans to put the draft constitution to an AGM to be held at the Scottish Autumn Conference.

(Emphasis mine)(Report of the Committee of Experts (Constitution) on Proposals for a Draft Constitution of Ghana, page 13) These proposals were presented to the Consultative Assembly set up under the Consultative Assembly Law, 1991 (PNDCL 253).

On July 31st 1991, A Committee of Experts chaired by Dr. S.K.B. Asante presented «Proposals for a Draft Constitution of Ghana» to the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC).

The committee's mandate, as noted earlier, is to streamline all the proposals for constitutional amendments and by that, determine the «substance and workability» of each proposal and present their report, which shall be in the form of a draft constitution to national conference, through national council for consideration and adoption.

National Council, yesterday, resolved that two weeks after the receipt of the committee's report, it shall reconvene to consider same and then two weeks afterwards, an extraordinary national delegates conference would be organized solely for the purpose of considering and adopting the report (draft constitution) of the committee.

Then a Consultative Assembly debated the Draft Constitution and came out with a final Constitutional proposal, which was put to a referendum at which Ghanaians voted.

Governor John Jay, who had drafted the Constitution, asserted that the Council could not propose appointees, only vote for or against the governor's nominees.

If enough public attention comes to the draft constitution then inevitably many will raise questions such as these:

To back up their vision of a just political party they drafted a constitution which was a model for fairness to all concerned.

The rejection of the draft constitution is not necessarily a setback for Thailand's military junta.

Though the draft constitution was passed at a referendum, governments have since failed to implement it.

The Communists wanted an assembly with full constitutional powers and no time limit, whereas de Gaulle, the Socialists and the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) advocated one with a term limited to only seven months, after which the draft constitution would be submitted for another referendum.

In 1994, a plan and a draft constitution were adopted.

For example, my first course of action when students try to blow up our shared Minecraft world with TNT is to ask the students to draft a constitution that governs game play.

Subsequently, a draft constitution, incorporating the proposed amendments, was prepared and submitted to the secretaries of the 3 breed clubs for discussion and ratification at their 2009 AGMs.

With the declaration of independence, the chairman appointed one person from each municipality to a committee to draft a constitution.

If demand for adjustment is going to increase, it might be advisable to draft constitutions that have more flexible amendment provisions so as to allow more formal change, which usually has the advantage of involving democratic processes.