Sentences with phrase «framers of»

The framers of the Constitution afforded inventors exclusive rights to their inventions, observed Alexander Poltorak, CEO of General Patent.

The focus was on granting rights to individuals, because the framers of the Constitution saw that there was power in the freedom and creativity of the individual, as is evidenced in the theme of the vast majority of the very literature of the very authors of the Constitution.

Field J commented: «I must confess that I reach this conclusion without regret, for I can not believe that the framers of the Regulations or the 1993 Directive intended that someone with the bargaining power of Mr Kufner and who procures the purchase of the component parts of a business at the cost of several millions of Euros should have the protection afforded by the legislation.»

The leading Framers of our Constitution viewed the principle of separation of powers as the central guarantee of a just government.

Hopefully, you get the idea: that the rules of statutory interpretation are supposed to not only help clarify what we read but also to bring us into the parliamentarian heart whereby we can see and feel the purpose of the framers of legislation in writing the Act.

In my opinion this is arbitrary, arguably irrational, and a league away from the intentions of the framers of the Convention.»

«The concept of freedom of speech received for the first time an authoritative judicial interpretation in accord with the purpose of the framers of the Constitution.»

The witness did not have to have been compelled to testify in the other proceedings to engage section 13, and to hold otherwise deprived the accused of much of the protection the framers of the provision.

James Sandman: I go back to the founding of our country and I think the principles expressed by the founders and the framers of the constitution directly refute that.

Adverse costs awards of this magnitude (and rising) simply could not have been foreseen by the initial framers of the Class Proceedings Act, 1992.

The issue of costs has been identified by the framers of the governing legislation as the driving force of class actions and the single most important issue in their design.

The Framers of our Constitution lived at a time when the Old World still tolerated in the shadow of ancient feudal traditions.

The drafters and the framers of the Charter were not prepared to relinquish to the courts the right to question the substantive adequacy of their legislation.

In Kazakewich v. Kazakewich, [1936] A.J. No. 10 (C.A.), the Alberta Court of Appeal summed up the ratios in Lambe, Severn and Edwards in this way at paragraph 86: I take it then that in approaching the interpretation of the pertinent sections of The B.N.A. Act with respect to the administration of justice, a Court should keep in mind that these sections are embodied in an Imperial statute to which the ordinary rules for the interpretation of statutes apply, that therefore the intention of the framers of this Imperial statute must be ascertained as at the date of the enactment by having regard to the words employed without extraneous aids to interpretation where the language is unambiguous, and that having regard however to the nature of the statute, a great constitutional charter, the widest and most liberal construction of the words used should be adopted with a view to giving effect to the whole scheme of Canadian union [Emphasis Added].

Article II of the Constitution prohibits a President from using the pardon power to overturn an impeachment.5 The Framers of the Constitution placed only this limitation on the ability of the President to exercise his pardon power, 6 and the only sanction for the abuse of the pardon power is the removal of the President through impeachment.7 The Constitution is silent, however, as to whether the President may grant himself a pardon from prosecution and, if so, when such a pardon may be issued.8 In the over 20,000 instances that Presidents have used this exclusive power, 9 no President has used this power to pardon himself.10

«If what the framers of the legislation had in mind was that the leave test was going to be a meaningful obstacle that would screen out cases, there's no indication in the two cases that have decided leave so far that that's going to happen,» he said.

These considerations go far to support the opinion that the framers of our Constitution had not the Indian tribes in view when they opened the courts of the union to controversies between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states.

There is considerable doubt that the Sixth Amendment itself, as originally drafted by the Framers of the Bill of Rights, contemplated any guarantee other than the right of an accused in a criminal prosecution in a federal court to employ a lawyer to assist in his defense.

Since the framers of the Constitution could not have meant to rule from the grave this way (most conservatives would agree, thereby betraying originalism straight away), we seek a more malleable application of the right to bear arms.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were two of the key framers of the Constitution.

Somehow the framers of the US constitution managed to gift the federal government with the power of coercion over individual states.

Unlike framers of old, they refuse to hide their head in the sand but instead choose to stand up to bullies and, in some cases, beat them at their own game.

Wall - mounted TVs rob custom framers of potential sales, and they need to do something about it.

The original framers of the pension accounting rules assumed that everyone would be angels, and so they left a lot of flexibility in the accounting rules to encourage the creation of defined benefit plans, expecting that men of good will would go out of their way to fund them fully and soon.

Our ancestors — in fact, the framers of the US Constitution — recognized that art builds on art, and that locking up culture benefits a handful but harms the the greater public.

help stimulate student thinking about why we need checks and balances, what the framers of the Constitution were trying to achieve, and other governmental approaches to balancing power.

The framers of Arizona's ESA, for example, never imagined that families would use ESA funds to purchase therapeutic horseback riding lessons to help children with cerebral palsy build their motor skills.

Let each child «sign» his rule, just as the framers of our Constitution signed their document so many years ago.

Martha Derthick: When the framers of the United States Constitution wrote that it is a duty of the chief executive to «take care» that the laws be faithfully executed, they can hardly have imagined a law so freighted with perverse and destructive consequences as No Child Left Behind.

The framers of the United States Constitution wrote that it is a duty of the chief executive to «take care» that the law be faithfully executed, but waivers began to make a significant appearance in public policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s.

But as he discovered that the framers of the American Constitution had created a system that could change only slowly, he acquired a more patient strategic vision.

The framers of the Wilderness Act, believing that automobiles led to the ruination of nature, prohibited anything related to a road or a motor in designated areas.

Indeed, the framers of Nigeria's constitutions have historically failed to take human dignity seriously.

I examine the reasoning of the Supreme Court (SC) and demonstrate how the judgment failed to do justice to the relevant provisions of the Constitution resulting in far - reaching consequences beyond those intended by the framers of the 1992 Constitution.

Are our elected representatives like - minded to the framers of the Declaration of Independence today as they were then?

According to him, the framers of the constitution should have made provisions for the oath to be recited by the acting President when the need arises.

At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», Joy FM quotes former president Kufuor as criticizing the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.

Direct democracy was not what the framers of the United States Constitution envisioned for the nation.

We therefore have a collective duty to respect these rights of individuals, especially so, when such individuals occupy very important or strategic institutions of state which the framers of our constitution in their wisdom, found it prudent to guarantee their independence by among others insulating them from the interference or control of the Executive or any other body.

The framers of the Ghana's 1992 constitution as at that time, perhaps meant well.

To this end, the framers of the Constitution provided that anytime Government intends to enter into any agreement with any foreign entity that has economic or business interest, the agreement must be subject to prior parliamentary approval or ratification before it can have any legal effect.

what the framers of the constitution really intended was that confidentiality and privacy should apply to impeachment proceedings under this article.

Commonsense could even be brought to bear on this interpretation that the framers of the Constitution could not have intended that even before prima facie determination has been made, or

Although the U.S. has a federalist framework, since roughly the administration of Theodore Roosevelt administration and with a larger expansion under FDR, the federal government has been growing in size and scope far beyond what the original framers of the constitution ever intended.

A proposal was made to the framers of our Constitution to create the post of a Prime Minister and it was rejected.

Responding to the Abuakwa South legislator, the Organised Youth of Krobo said bringing development to an area should be national in character and not based on ethnicity, religion, economical status, race, or religion as propounded by the framers of the 1992 constitution.

The Framers of the Constitution were concerned about giving a voice to smaller states, thereby preventing dominance by the populous states.

The framers of the US Constitution were strongly opposed to monarchy, in which a single individual embodies the authority of the government and may remain on the throne for decades.

Confronting similar challenges in the post-authoritarian interim period, the framers of each constitution intended to create a new, democratic state.

He has argued that in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», former president Kufuor criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.