Sentences with phrase «elected legislature»

By the laws of the day, this threw the contest to the newly elected legislature, which according to preliminary results was under full Republican control.
But that's just the start: until we have a fully elected legislature, we can not call ourselves a true democracy.
After two consecutively elected legislatures approve a proposed amendment, voters weigh in the following November.
The initiative route would take several years because constitutional amendments must be passed by two successively elected Legislatures and then approved in a general election by statewide referendum.
Moral approval of results, an approval that will never be unanimous and will frequently be a minority view, is not of itself sufficient to justify judges in overriding the moral choices of elected legislatures.
Westchester voters have written another chapter in the history of the Women's Rights Movement, electing a legislature with a majority of women for the first time in the county's history.
If, like Ronald Dworkin, you think that rights - based judicial review is an integral part of a democratic political structure, you won't view this type of review as having democratic costs; if, like Jeremy Waldron, you value decision - making by elected legislatures very strongly, your estimate of the democratic costs of all judicial review of legislation will be very high.
But it also contracts democracy because any constitutional right disables the popularly elected legislature from enacting some legislation it might otherwise wish to enact, and this decreases the general power of the public.
In more and more Eastern European countries, freely elected legislatures are initiating economic reforms based on free - market principles.
There is legitimacy in elected legislatures and governments because they necessarily have some degree of popular support (and it is possible to change them at the next election).
* Take large with a grain of salt — This group has enough sway to elect legislatures who will agree with them, but that's the most I'd say about it
And he says, in answer to reporters» questions, the Assembly still wants to enact the pension reforms, but simply got bogged down on details required to amend the state's constitution, which requires the vote of two concurrently elected legislatures.
Typically a colony was ruled by a governor appointed from London who controlled the executive administration and relied upon a locally elected legislature to vote taxes and make laws.
(Recall that the Senate GOP passed a constitutional amendment bill that would change the way lines are drawn in the long term, but only if two independently elected Legislatures vote «yes» on that measure and it then passes in a public referendum.
Still, lawmakers do have time to sort out the changes: A constitutional amendment must be approved twice by separately elected legislatures before it goes before voters.
If, however, the democratically elected legislature passed an explicit statute to end the wind power rip - off, Ontario could determine what compensation, if any, would be paid, and to whom.
In addition to the institutional or parliamentary purists and those who feared the sort of innovation associated with the American Supreme Court, there were still other premiers who simply felt that duly elected legislatures were better positioned than appointed judges when it came to the matter of protecting individual and community rights.
In order for lawmakers to lose their pensions after a felony conviction, the measure will need to be approved by the next consecutively elected legislature.
A law can easily change with a single legislative vote while a constitutional amendment requires approval by two separately elected Legislatures and then a public referendum, they say.
(Government 101: An amendment must be approved by two successively elected legislatures and approved by voters in a November general election.
For example, according to de Mesquita's coding scheme about 80 % of all countries have an elected legislature.
It requires passage by two separately elected Legislatures and subsequent approval by the voters.
As a constitutional change, the bill requires more work to pass than normal legislation: Changes must be ratified by two consecutively elected Legislatures and then by voters in the next general election (for example, casino gaming was approved by that process in 2013).
Flanagan indicated a better way to change the constitution, if desired, is to pass amendments (doing so requires passage by two separately elected Legislatures and voter approval).
These bills require constitutional amendments, which means they have to be passed by two separately elected Legislatures and then approved in a public referendum.
However, the Inca Empire (15th - 16th century CE), which never had anything approaching an elected legislature, had an economic system which was centrally planned (a common feature of economies laying claim to the name «socialist»), and in some respects recognizably redistributive.
In order to alter the state's constitution, two consecutively elected legislatures must approve the change.
To pass a state constitutional amendment in New York, two separately elected Legislatures would have to pass the measure, meaning the earliest it could be put before voters is 2019.
Any expansion would mean a constitutional amendment, which requires approval from two separately elected Legislatures and a voter - approved referendum.
The former mayor says that if the Republicans want to go the constitutional amendment route, which requires passage by two separately elected Legislatures and a public referendum, after passing a bill that would apply to the 2012 elections, «no one would object to that.»
It makes the amendment, which must be approved by two separately elected Legislatures and then by a voter referendum, a pretty broad stroke for altering the existing laws.
The governor has said he also seeks an accompanying statute as extra protection, in case the constitutional amendment, which requires the approval of two consecutively elected legislatures, never passes.
Any amendment must be passed by two consecutively elected Legislatures (in other words, an amendment first passed in 2017 couldn't receive the required second passage until 2019).
The League, along with Citizen's Union, also wants the legislature to adopt a law that requires the same changes, just in case the constitutional amendment, which requires the approval of two consecutively elected legislatures, plus a public vote, does not ultimately pass.
The legislature approved first passage of a constitutional amendment to permit gambling earlier this year, but it needs the approval of two consecutively elected legislatures, plus the voters, so the earliest casinos could be allowed would be late in 2013.
The elected legislature should normally maintain full public control of government services and state operations, ensuring public and Parliamentary accountability through conditionally supporting the government, and articulating reasoned opposition, via its proceedings.
To become a law, a constitutional amendment must be passed by two consecutively elected legislatures and then approved by voters at the polls.
The constitutional change can occur only after two separately elected Legislatures and a public referendum in favor of the amendment, something that could happen by November 2013.
A constitutional change requires the OK of two consecutively elected legislatures, and then approval by the voters.
A constitutional change requires the ok of two consecutively elected legislatures, and then approval by the voters.
In New York, a constitutional amendment requires the approval of two consecutively elected legislatures and a statewide majority vote.
Rather than share power with the opposition, Hugo Chávez castrates the newly elected legislature
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