Sentences with phrase «government in our constitutional democracy»

[1] This case raises troubling implications that strike to the heart of the constitutional relationship between the judicial and other branches of government in our constitutional democracy.

Not exact matches

The Polish government is in talks with the authorities in Brussels to ensure its changes to the constitutional court would not affect democracy.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our courts are working, rule of law is part of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved by decisions by an arm of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.

«Under an unconstitutional government, you can just lock up someone just like that, and seize all their assets; but we live in constitutional governance and democracy, and so the law must work.

In a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi StatIn a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi Statin Kogi State.

The Government of Ghana had in an earlier statement signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh, condemned the coup of September 17, noting that it violates with impunity «the internationally brokered process to promote the principle of entrenching democracy and constitutional governance in Burkina Faso.»

Fortunately, we live in a constitutional democracy with not two, but three branches of government and the judicial branch has drawn the constitutional line to protect our children.

If we have any hope of changing the dynamic in this country, we have to start with basic legal education — an education about what it means to have a constitutional democracy, that is based on three separate, but independent, equal branches of government.»

She has stated publicly on several occasions that mutual respect between the branches of government — and their respective roles — is essential in a constitutional democracy.»

«Constitutional democracy means that institutions have different jobs to do and Parliament has its job to do, which is a very important job — to put before Parliament and vote on laws in accordance with the views of the government of the day and their representatives.

The legal question that Mr. Charkaoui's Constitutional challenge presented was how the government should balance its responsibility to protect the safety of its citizens and to remain accountable to constitutional values and democracy.3 The security certificate provisions in the IRPA tried to balance these issues by giving the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness the authority to issue «security certificates» to detain and deport non-citizens deemed to be a danger to Constitutional challenge presented was how the government should balance its responsibility to protect the safety of its citizens and to remain accountable to constitutional values and democracy.3 The security certificate provisions in the IRPA tried to balance these issues by giving the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness the authority to issue «security certificates» to detain and deport non-citizens deemed to be a danger to constitutional values and democracy.3 The security certificate provisions in the IRPA tried to balance these issues by giving the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness the authority to issue «security certificates» to detain and deport non-citizens deemed to be a danger to public safety.