Sentences with phrase «federalism where»

It is based on the discredited «watertight compartments» theory of federalism where the federal and provincial governments exercise their legislative powers without regard for each other's interests.

Indeed, such judicial resolution would trample Congress's carefully calibrated process of cooperative federalism where states work in tandem with [the Environmental Protection Agency] to administer the federal Clean Air Act.»

He believes in true federalism where everyone would have equal rights.

Not exact matches

Federalism is a method of organizing a country where there are two «levels» of government: the country and its constituent parts.

Ferran Requejo is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he is director of the Research Group on Political Theory and has directed the Master programmes on Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality andPolitical Philosophy.

That is, unlike the American experience in 1787, an equally textbook example of «coming together» federalism, where disparate existing «sovereign states» have to be persuaded to join a Union, the United Kingdom obviously already exists.

«Few things are awkward about federalism in Nigeria, Nigeria is the only Federating Nation in the world where there is only one Police system.

A Presidential system of government which by its nature cedes a lot of powers to «Mr President» or maybe «Madam President» one day, can only work in a democratic system where true federalism thrives.

The 1954 Constitution was as a result of the Constitutional conference that took place in London in 1953 where the resolution for Nigeria to remain a Federal State was adopted and the reasons for the adoption of federalism were:

This is where Aribisala's lament becomes more apposite: «[The Yoruba and the Igbo] prefer a Nigeria that practices fiscal federalism.

The Urhobo Foundation added that, «to engender a fair territorial redistribution, Nigeria must revert to true federalism of the old federal system as enshrined in the 1960 Constitution where the federating units owned and controlled their resources to drive their developments under their respective constitution.

If it decides to proceed, the Trump Administration needs to decide where it stands with faith - based groups and how it defines federalism in the context of a national tax credit.

Under a long history of «cooperative federalism», where energy, transportation, and land use decisions are made on a local level, coalitions like «Under 2 Coalition» for states, cities and regions and the «We Mean Business» initiative for companies have shaped climate policies.

«The article suggests that the reason for this counterintuitive result may be Luttig's commitment to textualism as part of his larger judicial philosophy... This has been noted in the context of the recently completed Supreme Court term, where in several high - profile cases some of the individual Justice's votes were hard to explain in terms of political ideology, but instead seemed to reflect differences in judicial philosophy, such as principles of federalism.

Federalism may not be as sexy as substantive due process, but as Katrina shows, it can, literally, impact you right where you live, sometimes as much as abortion or minority rights or who you can marry.

The Court believes that it is more likely than not based on the Supreme Court's comments about federalism that the courts will apply Bristol - Myers Squibb to outlaw nationwide class actions in a form, such as in this case, where there is no general jurisdiction over the Defendants.

It eliminates all predictability as to where companies may be sued, and such uncertainty also strains defendants» budgets, burdens interstate commerce by exerting upward pressure on consumer prices, and erodes core principles of federalism as courts in certain states interfere with the regulatory affairs of other states.

A month after the Charlottetown Conference (aforementioned in yesterday's letter, click here to review yesterday's post), the existing provinces all met at the Quebec Conference to try and hash out a constitutional framework for the impending nation of Canada.1 This was where federalism, or the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments, became a focal point of discussion.