Sentences with phrase «federalism which»

According to him, in order for Nigeria to achieve true federalism, a unique system of federalism which takes into account our local circumstances should be created.

But the party retains a sincere commitment to federalism which is lacking in other governing political parties — and it seems to be genuinely appreciated by its grassroots membership.

If you want to live by Abiola's memory, if you want to honour him, we owe him a duty to ensure that we install a viable democracy and that viable democracy can only be installed if we have true federalism which we are presently not practicing, and that is very important,» he said.

The great majority of federations, including those which started with important cultural and political diversity, evolved towards a form of Unitarian federalism which, in its fundamental aspects, eventually adopted the shape of the dominant State, the Nation - State (one State, one people).

Not exact matches

Photo 03: One of the distinct ways in which Canada can help developing nations is to provide the expertise and experience of Canadians in justice, in federalism, in pluralistic democracy.

In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

Ryan's cleverest twist is an effort to justify his interpretation of federalism via the church's «principle of subsidiarity,» which says it is wrong «to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.»

Canada and Spain have already led the way towards a more asymmetrical federalism in which provinces or regions relate to the federal or central government in different ways.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

I call this the task of covenant publicity, for which we can draw on the ancient traditions of covenant that underlie modern federalism as well as on the ideas of council, republic and ecclesia.

In L.A. the floral tributes — donated by a florist chain called Conroy's, which valued them at 20 bucks a throw — were specifically designed to correspond with the Games» so - called «festive federalism» official colors.

Today's Libya requires the rapid creation of nation - wide institutions and human capital which Libyan history shows is incompatible with federalism.

agos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Friday called for the closure of the Federal Land Registry in Lagos, describing it as an aberration which the current ongoing Constitutional amendment process must address in line with the principle of fiscal federalism.

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, has written in an Al - Jazeera English Opinion piece that federalism is the only solution which would be in fitting with Libyan history.

As far as it is concerned, territorial federalism can certainly ease tensions and calm down temporary crises through concessions from the majority nation to the minority nations (oftentimes temporary), but the logic inherent to the system will sooner or later lead the minority nations (which can not cease to be in a minority under territorial federalism) to ask for full national recognition, either by claiming multinational federalism or by seeking independence.

My recommendation for urgent restructuring, devolution of powers from the Centre to the federating units, enthronement of true fiscal federalism, all of which the National Conference argued, fought for, disagreed, agreed on and finally consensualized upon, between its inauguration by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, on March 17, 2014, to August 14, 2014, is to avoid a violent break - up of Nigeria.

If England were included as a single unit, since it accounts for more than 80 per cent of the population, federalism might create instability worse than that which it sought to correct.

One of the central questions in the years to come will be how to break up English politics so that its population size does not imbalance Wales and Scotland in a union which will inevitably go down the road of federalism.

«In the same corollary, the position of Lagos State on restructuring remains the same as stipulated in the manifesto of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, which states that «The APC shall initiate action to amend our Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to States and local governments in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit».

On the other hand, he romanticises territorial fissures that Gen. Yakubu Gowon started, as a «process of national integration and cohesion», which nevertheless folks elsewhere would lampoon as military era «unitary federalism», which Gowon started with 12 states but which, at the last count, was 36.

The closest would be to talk about the principle of federalism, which left decisions about choosing the majority of judges to the states.

«The greatest disappointment in the presidential broadcast is the act of buck passing, on the issue of restructuring, true federalism and devolution of powers, which were the main campaign slogans of the president, as encapsulated in the APC manifesto.

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.

Dickson who called on people of the Niger Delta to stop betraying their leaders noted that both Alamieyeseigha and Ibori were victims of the Niger Delta struggle which was as a result of their campaign for resource control and fiscal federalism.

If exit poll is correct it sets up a big SNP Scotland v Tory England stand - off... which could result (hopefully) in full federalism...

«I still hold the view that this feeding bottle federalism, this act of robbing Peter to pay Paul, which we have gradually enthroned as state policy since the fall of the First Republic, remains cause of our economic quandary.»

Hence, the lack of supporting constitutional text, principles of federalism, and the doctrine of stare decisis (which lends stability to the law by encouraging courts to stand by their prior decisions) all militate against the creation of a federal constitutional right to education or to supposedly equal school funding.

Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are pitching hugely expensive «free college» plans as a move toward a «new federalism,» in which hundreds of billions in conditional federal outlays would be used to entice states to spend more and obey new federal rules.

Politically, the secretary is on firm ground citing the precedent of his predecessors» waivers, and his critics» temporal concerns about executive power and federalism seem to owe more to which party controls the Oval Office than any underlying theory of government.

But there is a fundamental flaw in fiscal federalism theory as it applies to education: the ability of taxpaying parents of school - age children to vote with their feet (leave school districts with which they are dissatisfied) is severely constrained for the low - income populations that are most likely to find themselves served by low - performing schools.

The question I would like to address is: Do the Common Core national curriculum - content standards undermine «competitive federalism,» which is a feature of our Madisonian system of federalism?

Both administrations were unwilling to challenge the traditional view of federalism, which essentially restricted the federal role in governing how states treated citizens under law.

Executive Order 13132 sets forth principles and criteria to which Federal agencies must adhere in policymaking that has Federalism implications.

For decades, striking a balance between federal and state authority has been achieved under the legal theory of cooperative federalism, in which the federal government and individual states act as partners in drawing up and implementing policies.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, refused to comply with the subpoena, which he said «oversteps the boundaries of federalism, separation of powers, and the committee's own jurisdiction.»

Given that Scalia has no doubt done many «things» of which he should be proud, his choice of this has Norm Pattis at Crime & Federalism wondering «if he's off his rocker, or if his meds need readjusting.»

In this brief essay, I offer a route by which a future majority of the Supreme Court can limit the scope of its decision in Gonzales v. Raich should it desire to put its commitment to federalism above a commitment to national power.

At this post at Crime and Federalism, Mike Cernovich introduces us to the law firm of Laquer, Urban, Clifford & Hodge, which, according to its Web site, counsels employers «on prevention and education to avoid costly problems.»

I have also recently added a paper to SSRN on federalism generally, which can be read here.

The Court made a number of comments in reaching this conclusion, which suggest that federalism concerns, and particularly the doctrine of «interjurisdictional immunity» in favour of Canada's exclusive jurisdiction over «Indians and lands reserved for Indians», have no place at all in assessing the infringement of section 35 rights by provincial laws of general application.

On the one hand, cooperative federalism is an admirable goal, which permits both provincial and federal levels of government to participate in regulation of various economic activities without exceeding their jurisdiction.

The policy behind these decisions was to encourage cooperative Federalism, which preserves as much freedom as possible for both Federal and Provincial legislatures to legislate in overlapping areas.

But what it means in practice is that the only reason today that Article III judges must defer to the D.C. Court of Appeals on questions of D.C. law is because the D.C. Circuit itself has said so — and so stare decisis, and not the Rules of Decision Act or principles of federalism — carries all the weight (and would not bind federal courts outside of the D.C. Circuit in diversity cases in which choice - of - law rules compel application of D.C. substantive law).

Justice Slatter also praises the Canadian healthcare system as «an example of co-operative federalism in action,» though the Canada Health Act, which threatens provinces with the loss of their federal healthcare transfers if they do not comply with its conditions, seems like a rather dubious example of «co-operation.»

Thank you for posting the IRPP study which re-affirms the important role public policy should play in relationship to strengthening the staus quo ante, in favor of co-operative federalism, under our Charter.