Sentences with phrase «in a constitutional democracy where»

Regardless, we live in a constitutional democracy where navigating the legal system is a long, hard and expensive slog.

Not exact matches

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

Commenting on the incident, opposition youth leader in the state, Austin Okai, described the action of the Governor and the Police Commissioner as a plot to truncate democracy in the state and institutionalize autocracy where in the legislature is suspended from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities.

Whatever one thinks of the appropriate federal role in education, there are surely strong reasons in our constitutional democracy to prefer that we get to where we are going through law rather than executive edict.