Sentences with phrase «important constitutional questions»

The advisory opinions that are issued can provide guidance to the federal and provincial governments as to important constitutional questions of the day.

because «such a construction of the Sherman Act would raise important constitutional questions,» specifically, First Amendment questions.

This appeal presents important constitutional questions as to federal aid for church - related colleges and universities under Title I of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, 77 Stat.

The Civil War decided — on the battlefields rather than in the courts — the most important constitutional questions in our nation's history: the nature of the Union under the Constitution, the status and future of slavery, the powers of the national government versus the states, the supremacy of the Constitution, and the wartime powers of the president as commander in chief.

The U.S. Constitution and its ultimate interpreter, the Supreme Court, are in the paramount position and should not be screened away from important constitutional questions by patently erroneous or unlawful decisions purporting to define property rights made by inferior tribunals.

The Litigation Center also regularly participates in cases that present important constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers, due process rights, unreasonable searches and seizures, property rights, federal preemption under the Supremacy Clause, free speech, and many other issues.

- Clearly, this is an important Constitutional question that needs an answer.

«I don't understand how you could raise such an important constitutional question and not want to hear the answer,» said Elevate candidate Ryan Abresch.

«Not only is this a vast undertaking, it throws up some important constitutional questions,...

«Not only is this a vast undertaking, it throws up some important constitutional questions, such as the extent to which Government Ministers should be able to re-shape the law without scrutiny by Parliament.»

But here there is a split among federal courts of appeals on an important constitutional question — the D.C. Circuit and the Fifth Circuit take the individual rights view (see here and here for why the Fifth Circuit's decision can't be dismissed as dictum), while I think nine other circuits take the collective rights view.

This legislation will raise an important constitutional question: are AMPs of $ 15 million a «true penal consequence» that would attract the safeguards provided for in s. 11 of the Charter.

The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — the Repeal Bill that will transpose massive amounts of EU legislation into UK law - raises «important constitutional questions», lawyers have warned.