Sentences with phrase «for federalism»

Historically, some tax policy makers believed that it was unconstitutional to tax interest from municipal bonds (a.k.a. bonds issues by state and local governments) for federalism reasons.

But at least the rally — though symbolically awful for federalism — was mainly hype.

As Max and I put it, «Trump will occasionally utter conservative - sounding phrases, but he's no conservative — he shows no taste for limited government, no respect for federalism, and no faith in local institutions.»

Europe lacks a clear «demos», and there is a lack of support for federalism amongst EU citizens.

+1 for Federalism — a lot of folks may not realize that the constitution specifically gives states the power to set their own rules for most things, including how local positions are elected or appointed.

It would represent a rejection of the values of economic growth, limited government, and respect for federalism that Republicans claim to embrace,» said NCIA executive director Aaron Smith in a statement.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism - based legislative solution to fix this states» rights issue once and for all.»

It covers, for example, the role and governance of charities, federalism and urban governance issues, and questions of accountability and transparency in government.

Federalism is based on shared principles including respect for the constitution and the division of powers, while being aware that Quebec has not agreed to the Constitution Act, 1982, and accepting that there are differences among the provinces and territories and that governments may have different policy priorities and preferences.

In the area of federalism, the Party is committed to gaining greater autonomy for Alberta within Canada.

One of the great strengths of Canadian federalism is the scope it allows for provinces to experiment.

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.

The return to a more robust form of federalism would allow for greater local autonomy in establishing and cultivating local forms of culture and self - governance.

We worshipped at Jefferson's «wall of separation» without acknowledging that the author of that famous phrase had drafted Virginia's «Bill for Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship and Sabbath Breakers,» or that the First Amendment was more a monument to federalism and to Protestant definitions of denominational autonomy than to religious freedom.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

How Asymmetrical Federalism Might Allow for an Independent United Kingdom within the European Union

On the other hand — perhaps because nothing really in the Constitution establishes such a norm of federalism for courts to enforce.

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.

@DrunkCynic I'm mostly looking for a 101 - level primer on how it works in practice, not a law - review deep - dive into Federalism and history of legal precedents.

Tactical support for the NLD is likely to sit alongside unrealistic visions of independence and only very slightly more plausible visions of devolution or deep federalism.

This means European politicians will have to stop pretending these limits do not exist (federalism; one size fits all fiscal policy) and start emphasising what space for cooperation they do leave open.

Perhaps the search for justice would have been swifter and easier; and the national question, maybe resolved by productive federalism, wrought from hard compromise.

Barrister Mike Ezekhome stated that Abiola fought for true nationalism and advised that Nigerians must embrace true federalism.

These calls for the delegation of overlapping, autonomous, and ill - defined powers to localities and regions bear only the vaguest resemblance to types of federalism that exist in the United States, Germany, or India.

Yet, the proponents of federalism wish to decide taxes and budgets at the provincial level — a sure recipe for gridlock.

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.

Since the start of April, ongoing clashes in Libya's main southern cities of Sebha and Kufra led to similar calls for special regional autonomy arrangements, dubbed «federalism» in the Libyan political discourse.

This has excluded other shades of opinion such as republican visions of independence, the Lib Dems» preference for UK federalism, or the Conservatives» (lamentably unarticulated) historic support for unitary sovereigntism.

Federalism is not a panacea for solving problems of national pluralism in democratic contexts.

«If I become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by 2019, one of my cardinal policies will be to reduce the powers of the Nigerian Police by allowing for the establishment of state police in the spirit of true federalism.»

Top proponents of federalism — including former senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr. — pushed for a presidential form, arguing that this was «more familiar» to Filipinos, according to ABS - CBN.

It seems impossible for the project of multinational federalism to prosper under those conditions.

«What we owe Nigeria today is nothing but true Federalism and for us to be able to achieve true federalism, we have to work hard for it and that is the message the Governor has asked me tFederalism and for us to be able to achieve true federalism, we have to work hard for it and that is the message the Governor has asked me tfederalism, we have to work hard for it and that is the message the Governor has asked me to deliver.

The natural elixir for that, it would appear, is federalism.

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has advocated the need for the country to specially focus on political economy in the quest for true federalism in order to ensure class elevation and egalitarianism.

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.

It seems that federalism is a good solution for those 2.

Granted the angling for fiscal federalism and resource control being canvassed all over the country scales through, what will Ekiti boast of?

The Scottish Liberal Democrats were committed to an overarching principle of federalism throughout the United Kingdom, with the Scottish Labour Party advocating legislative devolution for Scotland and Wales, as had been attempted unsuccessfully in the late 1970s, the Scottish National Party seeking independence.

On its own part, UYLA, while thanking the Federal Government for initiating the visit, called for true fiscal federalism as well as an increase in derivation benefit to the region from 13 to 50 per cent within every period of five years.

For him, decentralisation was the way of the future and the constitutional reforms proposed by Trudeau were incompatible with Canadian federalism.

On fiscal federalism, they said, «The clamour for fiscal federalism has continued to be re-echoed by different sections of the country.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has added his voice to the ongoing calls for the restructuring of the Nigerian federalism.

The Southwest leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC have called for true and genuine federalism in Nigeria.

He said the struggle for true, genuine and fundamental federalism must be seriously agitated for by the APC Southwest zonal leadership, saying this clarion call must be frontally reached out to the federal government in order to ascertain better restructuring of the country.

He called for true federalism as being practiced in advanced countries of the world, saying it is abnormal in any true federalism for any tier to be financially incapacitated as being experienced in the country.

Nigeria needs true federalism just as the overall power existing in the country needs to be devolutionalized to the existing regions for effective and efficient governance and management.

Ambode said the time has come for Nigerians to go beyond the commemoration and entrench a viable democracy as a way to immortalise the late presumed winner of June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Chief M.K.O Abiola through the practice of true federalism and conduct of credible and fair elections.