Sentences with phrase «equal branch of»

The courts are not just another state commission or board, they represent an equal branch of government, and the judiciary should be heard on this issue.The current LRC listing of the Simpson bill does not contain the wording of these proposed amendments, and we therefore have relied on the Post article regarding the provision of the Simpson bill.

But, we must work together to deliver them for the people of New York, and that would be much easier if he would commit to working with the Legislature as an equal branch of government.

Flanagan on Wednesday said he's fought similar battles with the governor before on the basics of being an equal branch of government.

«As I've always said many, many times,» he said at a recent news conference, «the Legislature is an equal branch of government and should be respected.»

The commission, created under the Moreland Act by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has subpoena power, but can't directly investigate the Legislature, which is a separate and equal branch of government.

The Legislature is an equal branch of government.

But I firmly believed that our democratic system of government was sufficiently insulated from any real abuse, by our Constitution and by the checks and balances afforded by having three separate but equal branches of government.

Though the term «separation of powers» does not appear anywhere in the text of the United States Constitution, the concept of three separate but equal branches of government is one of the most important ways our government defends the liberties essential to our democracy.

If we have any hope of changing the dynamic in this country, we have to start with basic legal education — an education about what it means to have a constitutional democracy, that is based on three separate, but independent, equal branches of government.»

«Though the term «separation of powers» does not appear anywhere in the text of the United States Constitution,» Bass wrote in the ABA Journal, «the concept of three separate but equal branches of government is one of the most important ways our government defends the liberties essential to our democracy.»

We are supposed to have three equal branches of government.

Not exact matches

The move made it the first branch of the Anglican faith in the UK to allow same - sex marriage and was welcomed by equal rights campaigners.

Lingerie owner branched out and designed a pair of leggings that are equal parts cute and comfortable.

During the Democratic majority in the Ulster County Legislature, we worked on protecting the environment, on bringing in green jobs, on keeping costs down, on creating a new form of government with equal branches,» said Rodriguez.

The graceful taper of a tree trunk into branches, boughs, and twigs is so familiar that few people notice what Leonardo da Vinci observed: A tree almost always grows so that the total thickness of the branches at a particular height is equal to the thickness of the trunk.

Expressed mathematically, Leonardo's rule says that if a branch with diameter (D) splits into an arbitrary number (n) of secondary branches of diameters (d1, d2, et cetera), the sum of the secondary branches» diameters squared equals the square of the original branch's diameter.

The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education.

Judge Norman Black of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, in a summary judgment, ruled that student - initiated religious - study meetings prohibited by two schools in the Spring Branch Independent School District are, in fact, permissible under the Equal Access Act, according to Maurice Amidei, counsel for the...

Today, Ikeda calls for giving «education a status and independence equal to that accorded the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.»

There were no signs and each branch seemed of equal width, both disappearing into blackness at the edge of the headlights» domain.

The rates for each institution are branch weighted, but the rate for a market is an equal - weighted average of each institution's aggregate rate that is participating in the market.

A rabbit's teeth are continuously growing but the daily act of chewing food as well as chewing on wooden blocks, branches and toys helps them wear down at a rate equal to their growth.

The judicial branch is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and the recruitment process is designed to treat all applicants equitably.

In the case of the dialogue theory, rather than offering the legislative branch a truly equal voice by way of its legislative responses, the theory proved to be more useful as a means by which the scope of Canadian judicial review could be legitimated.

Common law, as the body of law made by judges, 7 stands in contrast to and on equal footing with statutes which are adopted through the legislative process, and regulations which are promulgated by the executive branch.

I've mentioned here and here the difficulty Oklahoma has had in terms of increasing judicial salaries through their linking process; the salaries of the state's executive branch officials are equal to those of judicial officials.

The Iowa Judicial Branch is dedicated to the goal of assuring all Iowans have equal access to justice.

Concededly, the Judicial Branch website does provide prompt access to the original «slip opinions,» but these lack the editorial revisions that occur later during the publication process and also, of at least equal importance, they lack the volume and page numbers by which specific holdings of those cases must be cited in any subsequent legal proceeding.

All branches have an equal number of votes and may be represented by up to five delegates, one of whom is a member of the National Board of Directors.

International Law Association (Australian Branch) Papers presented at a series of three seminars held between 2002 and 2004 in association with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.