Sentences with phrase «far as our constitutional»

Add to this the political and legislative workload involved in devolving further powers to Scotland — and potentially revisiting the Smith Commission proposals in the process due to the SNP landslide — while also crafting a working arrangement for English votes for English laws, and it's obvious that the government has more than enough to be going on with as far as constitutional politics is concerned.

Dworkin, by and large, agreed with him, at least as far as the Constitutional decisions went, and Posner was the guts theory's latest lion.

Not exact matches

The debate over the role of Congress will be further complicated by the impending U.S. midterm elections as well as constitutional litigation over the respective roles of the White House and Congress regarding abrogation of trade agreements.

But, Alberta does not have the constitutional authority, at least so far as I can tell, to regulate the point and method by which exports take place, nor does it necessarily have any authority to interrupt specific exports which would otherwise be permissible with respect to aggregate export restrictions.

There are many Americans who believe that the right to own their gun is the most important Constitutional right and will go so far as to carry their weapons on city streets.

He held that «the religious nature of the recipient should not matter to the constitutional analysis, so long as the recipient adequately furthers the government's secular purpose.»

If that were true, there would have been (as you note) no need to reach the question of the legitimacy of their marriage, and they would not have made it this far in the court system (i. e., 4 postponements from the constitutional court).

Instead, constitutional action, often of a far - reaching nature and sometimes of a potentially divisive nature, seems to come about as a result of other dynamics.

«As far as APC is concerned, I have satisfied constitutional and the EC requirements and can contest the 2016 elections,» he said on Onua FM FridaAs far as APC is concerned, I have satisfied constitutional and the EC requirements and can contest the 2016 elections,» he said on Onua FM Fridaas APC is concerned, I have satisfied constitutional and the EC requirements and can contest the 2016 elections,» he said on Onua FM Friday.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

The prospect of far - reaching changes to Britain's constitutional arrangements loom closer, as the deputy prime minister lends his support to a plan to devolve power in England

The United Kingdom is referred to as a constitutional monarchy far more often than it is referred to as an absolute monarchy.

As far as I remember, it was the first time that political entities and parties were openly calling for abstentionism, and this triggered some debate about whether advocating for abstentionism was a constitutional right or noAs far as I remember, it was the first time that political entities and parties were openly calling for abstentionism, and this triggered some debate about whether advocating for abstentionism was a constitutional right or noas I remember, it was the first time that political entities and parties were openly calling for abstentionism, and this triggered some debate about whether advocating for abstentionism was a constitutional right or not.

It is now clear to me — as it was not even a few years ago — that it is entirely possible to find proponents for almost any constitutional position but virtually impossible to locate any argument that has thus far succeeded in triggering principled reform.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

Therefore, although the PSOE has stated its preference for a federal model of State, in no case has it gone so far as to contemplate the possibility of a multinational State based on a constitutional compact between its three dominant nations or nationalisms (Spanish, Basque and Catalan).

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

A 2013 decision by the Dominican Constitutional Court determined that several hundred thousand residents of the Caribbean nation born to undocumented immigrants are not citizens — even if their parents arrived as far back as 1929.

There are already many powers devolved but as part of the constitutional convention that I want to see, one of the things that we'll obviously be looking at is whether and what further powers should be devolved in London, that's a conversation we should be having.

Mr Kennedy, who has made it clear he would continue to work with the government on constitutional reform, left the door open to further links «if the prime minister made a proposal» in areas such as health or education.

There will be further trouble ahead, too: analysis of our interview with constitutional reform minister Mark Harper showed that Lords reform looks as unlikely as ever.

He further argued that Nigeria, as a nation, should not have been in the present situation if the provisions of the constitution were respected by the leadership of the country, insisting that the constitution has specific provisions on how an ailing president could be succeeded, even as he noted that the refusal by the FEC to respect and apply the constitutional provisions had led to the present crisis in the country.

But this is an essential, unavoidable part of the process: this kind of constitutional change requires extensive scrutiny so it can be improved as far as possible.

As Mr Brown pledges to move forwards with his plans for constitutional reform, first set out in July, the government published two further consultations today.

Abimbola further explained that Kayode Oloyede in his suit urged the court to set aside the environmental sanitation days in the state on ground of not being constitutional and lawful as well as praying to the court to adopt the position taken against Lagos State by the Court of Appeal in a suit which struck down the Lagos State environmental day as being unconstitutional same not having been created by any existing law.

This poor rating is not far from the truth because the operatives are now working as attack dogs ready and willing to undermine constitutional freedoms.

A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.

«Whether the 1st defendant (Buhari) after compliance with the 1999 constitutional provision, the Electoral Act and the guidelines to the extent of winning the 2015 presidential election as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, need other further qualification to contest the 2019 presidential election.

There is nowhere in the constitution that any ministerial portfolio has been created... So far as they have ministerial roles and functions, the only Minister who has been given constitutional recognition is the office of the Attorney General so with due respect to him, I do not see how he will have any serious argument to press home either in the court or within Parliament because it is pathetic... I am afraid his argument is jejune.

The referendum was lost but at that point the Lib Dems could still point to House of Lords reform as a sign that their constitutional reforming zeal was far from being finished.

Teachout, a 42 - year - old constitutional - law professor at Fordham University, is taking on New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary on September 9, from far to his left, in what started as a third - party bid.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

«Intriguingly, the statement goes into great depth discussing the under - construction constitutional amendment detailed in Friday's TU — so much depth that one would think it had already been rolled out with a Red Room presser featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo, legislative leaders and representatives from Citizens Union, whose members have been most vocal in pressing for the constitutional change as thus far described,» reads the Times Union post.

And the yes voters, 73 % of whom are apparently in the market for a second referendum within five years, might well reflect that all the commissions thus far — from the constitutional convention which delivered devolution through Labour's Calman commission updating the Scotland Act, to the latest Smith proposals, share one arresting component: all appear to have a built - in obsolescence — as the independence debate stubbornly refuses to shut down.

Although few and far between, private placements nonetheless are an important constitutional precedent for special education vouchers, as the latter constitute only an extension of a long - standing practice that dates back to the civil - rights revolution.

As a result, the Code of Virginia § 22.1 — 200.03 required the Board of Education to develop and approve objectives for economics education and financial literacy to be required of all students at the middle and high school levels to «further the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for responsible citizenship in a constitutional democracy.»

North Carolina must uphold its constitutional commitment guaranteeing post-secondary education is «free as far as practical.»

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

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Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

There is also a tendency towards parochialism among scholars of constitutional law and politics as far as other countries» constitutional arrangements and practices are concerned.

«This furthers a clear pattern of politicization of the judiciary,» Bass» statement says, «starting with the disregard of judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal striking down legislation as unconstitutional and failing to seat judges properly appointed to it.

139] This is interesting, because as far as I am aware the CJEU has not yet held that Member States are able to derogate from provisions of secondary EU law on the basis of their national constitutional identity.

«Protection of reputation should be declared a stand - alone constitutional right under section 7 of the Charter, subject to the same vicissitudes as freedom of expression, namely, the further removed from its core value, the less worthy of protection,» states Timothy Danson, lead counsel for the doctor, in written submissions filed with the Court of Appeal.

As a further general point, it may be posited that the judgment's fundamental (re --RRB- statement of the United Kingdom's constitutional order was motivated by the justices» desire to solidify the Supreme Court's status in the face of the oncoming constitutional storm presented by Brexit.

My comments start from three propositions which are rooted in constitutional theory: (1) absent constitutional objection, legislation binds; (2) administrative decision - makers enabled by statute can only go so far as their home statute allows (3) it is a court's job, on any standard of review, to enforce those boundaries; in American terminology, to «say what the law is» (Marbury v Madison; Edmonton East, at para 21).

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.

In so far as this Charter recognises fundamental rights as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, those rights shall be interpreted in harmony with those traditions.

Now, the amendments introduced by Bill C - 36 are significant, and even go so far as to change the aims of the new prohibitions to discourage «the exploitation that is inherent in prostitution» — this with a view perhaps to affecting the constitutional analysis of the new prohibitions.

However, it did not consider it possible to lay down any formula capable of satisfactorily distinguishing between retained direct EU law that should be treated for this purpose as primary legislation and that which should be treated as secondary legislation: «We therefore conclude that on balance, and applying a constitutional precautionary principle, it is preferable to treat all retained direct EU law as primary legislation... Henry VIII powers which might be used to amend or repeal this law are a considerably narrower category than the more general and far broader category of secondary legislative powers to which retained direct EU law would otherwise be vulnerable were it designated as secondary legislation.»