In a break
from constitutional tradition, Mr Brown published for consultation a 50 - page list of draft bills outlining their main points.
It evolved
from constitutional traditions respecting private property and individual rights, it arose from religious teachings about human dignity, and it sprang from the mind of Kant.
Essentially, the national court asks whether Simmenthal II applies to the ECHR now that article 6 (3) TEU states that «Fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and as they result
from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, shall constitute general principles of the Union's law».
This the Court achieved by claiming that the principle of effective judicial protection constitutes a «a general principle of EU law stemming
from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States», enshrined in Articles 6 and 13 of the ECHR and «reaffirmed» by Article 47 of the Charter (para. 35).
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.
The Union shall respect fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed in Rome on 4 November 1950 and as they result
from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, as general principles of Community law.
This provision ranks fundamental rights, as they result
from the constitutional traditions common to Member States, among the general principles of EU law.
Not exact matches
With scant grounding in
constitutional text or
tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters
from legislative and local control.
A judge must have humility to seek his primary insights
from outside his own moral reasoning:
from the text of a
constitutional provision, its historical background, the nation's widely recognized
traditions, and the democratic body that passed the law that the judge is reviewing.
And indeed, a current of pride runs through the
constitutional tradition from the beginning.
The time is ripe for Americans to reconsider the advantages of crowns — or at least, to reflect on what we might be able to learn
from constitutional monarchies and the longstanding
traditions of England's kings and queens.
They stem, at the same time,
from Article 49 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Charter), the
constitutional traditions of Member States and the European Convention of Human Rights (paras 52 - 57).
The CJEU has traditionally drawn
from both international treaties — in particular the European Convention on Human Rights — and the common
constitutional traditions of the EU Member States in protecting fundamental rights.
From a scholarly perspective, I found that it's a proud part of our constitutional tradition, that it's perfectly legal and indeed was embraced by the framers as a way to protect people from too powerful law enforcement and too powerful prosecut
From a scholarly perspective, I found that it's a proud part of our
constitutional tradition, that it's perfectly legal and indeed was embraced by the framers as a way to protect people
from too powerful law enforcement and too powerful prosecut
from too powerful law enforcement and too powerful prosecutors.
On a comparative level I found it interesting that they quote Lord Steyn and mention both the Canadian and American
constitutional traditions, (though not the Australian), but all the cases cited are
from the Indian Supreme Court itself.