Sentences with phrase «in drafting their constitutions»

Madison, who had a central role in drafting the Constitution and the First Amendment, confirmed that he understood them to «[s] trongly guard -LSB--RSB-... the separation between Religion and Government.»

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In a keynote this morning, O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly trumpeted a shift in government that he compared to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the institution of the Marshall Plan: Namely, turning government into a platform for innovatioIn a keynote this morning, O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly trumpeted a shift in government that he compared to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the institution of the Marshall Plan: Namely, turning government into a platform for innovatioin government that he compared to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the institution of the Marshall Plan: Namely, turning government into a platform for innovation.

While the framers did not draft this part of the Constitution with the Internet in mind, they sure as Hell didn't anticipate the advent of genealogical data companies that share DNA information with law enforcement.

In a nice twist on the American Revolution theme, the Catenas rebels drafted their constitution in EnglanIn a nice twist on the American Revolution theme, the Catenas rebels drafted their constitution in Englanin England.

One common answer to the complex question of how to interpret the Constitution is that courts should read each provision, however broad or general in the light of the principles that those who drafted or ratified it, or the general public at the time, understood it to embody.

When the constitution of 1917 was drafted, therefore, «Catholic» representation was nonexistent, and the resulting document not only repeated earlier material restrictions on the Church (such as government ownership of all church property, civil registry of priests, and making marriage a civil matter) but also got in a symbolic lick or two (for example, religious garb was not to be worn in public; worship was to be only an indoor affair; alien priests were forbidden; and no religious labels were allowed for political parties).

In August, the group organized a letter asking Nepal's government to reject a constitution draft that signatories believe «nullifies and criminalizes the freedom to share, change and choose one's religion.»

Others find a moral preoccupation, almost obsession, in most of them, when they were not busy drafting a constitution.

The essential work of the council had to be recast, and it was Rahner, working with Joseph Ratzinger, who drafted De revelatione Dei et hominis in Jesu Christo, the seed of what became Dei Verbum, the Constitution on Divine Revelation.

Leftist governments in Bolivia and Ecuador have enshrined nature rights in their national constitutions, and a similar proposal was offered for inclusion in the draft United Nations global warming treaty.

The constitution was drafted in 1836, just before the school opened.

Whoever drafts a model constitution of what we have in codified form an immediate problem arises.

No one will ever agree on every proposal in a draft model constitution.

In this Q&A, I discuss the prospects for «unfreezing» the draft new constitution with Hordur Torfason, the award - winning human rights activist credited with starting Iceland's «pots and pans revolution».

The inclusion of diverse groups in the drafting process ensured that the constitution constrained state power and delineated crucial minority rights.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

At present, the most democratic constitution bill ever drafted is being held hostage by self - serving politicians in the clearest possible demonstration of a fundamental principle of constitution - making — namely, that politicians should neither be tasked with drafting nor ratifying constitutions because of the risk that they will act against the public interest.

After kidnapping the Yemeni President's Chief of Staff on 19 January, in the following days they went on to besiege the Presidential Palace and demand changes to Yemen's new draft constitution.

At this point, there was a significant push to enshrine the office as a two term limit for the sake of changing status quo and in 1951 they drafted an amendment to the constitution doing just that (Though it allowed the incumbent FDR and VP Truman to be exempt from this law until they were voted out, though this did not happen.

Lerner says at least the present provision in the state's constitution, drafted in the 1890's, attempted to ensure compact and contiguous districts.

In fact, they can just up and ignore the constitution and draft a new one.

Powers given to the president (as evidenced in AKP statements and the AKP's constitution draft in 2013) would allow the president alone to form the executive.

Alas, in recently approved draft legislation, the Romanian government declared the Canadian company's private project to be of public utility and of overriding public interest, which it is not, given that the Romanian Constitution stresses that «public interest riches», including underground resources, are the exclusive object of public property, meaning that they solely belong to the Romanian people.

The UK fought in the drafting of the constitution against any merging, but the new treaty will allow for it.

The committee's mandate, as noted earlier, is to streamline all the proposals for constitutional amendments and by that, determine the «substance and workability» of each proposal and present their report, which shall be in the form of a draft constitution to national conference, through national council for consideration and adoption.

Speaking in the Commons this afternoon (where the number of Tory MPs appeared to significantly exceed the number of Labour MPs), the Conservative leader David Cameron said that the issue at stake in discussion of the Constitution / EU draft Treaty was whether this Government was serious about listening to people or not.

Lawmakers have been paid since the state Constitution drafted in 1821 set their salary at $ 3 per day.

We were part of those who drafted the APC Constitution, but after the party was successfully registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, from nowhere, we heard that there were five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party moving from their party to join the APC and then, without getting in touch with the stakeholders of the party in the states from where the five governors were coming from, we were told they were coming to join the APC and they were ready to make their own financial contributions for the take off of the party.

The Constitution was approved in a series of referendums held over 1898 — 1900 by the people of the Australian colonies, and the approved draft was enacted as a section of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp), an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Several drafts were submitted to popular review, and the third draft was approved by all towns in 1783, leading to the constitution being established the next year.

Conscription isn't explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution, but the Selective Draft Law Cases ruled it permissible.

Order 120 (1) of the Standing Orders of the House, which is premised on Article 106 (2) of the Constitution states that «Except as provided in Orders 119 and 112 no Bill shall be introduced unless the text of the Bill, with no variations other than such as, in the opinion of the Parliamentary Draftsman, are of a trivial or drafting character, has been published in the Gazette fourteen days before the date of its introduction in the House.»

He is a former U.S. diplomat who was decorated by the U.S. Army and the State Department for his service in Iraq, where he mediated the drafting of the country's constitution.

We can presume, surely, that this is the only draft Constitution (using the term in a modern sense) to have been authored in our island home by an official government!

«My own view is that in its present form the substantial differences between the draft treaty and the old constitution mean that a referendum is not required,» he clarified.

He was decorated by the U.S. Army and the State Department for his leadership in bringing all sides together in cease - fire talks and the drafting of Iraq's constitution.

Instead, the governor has used the veto as a stick in negotiations over how to change the constitution — he has denounced the first draft of lines as «hyper - partisan» — but so far there has been no agreement.

The early decision was to draft a constitution providing for democratic club rule and an extremely anti-patronage policy, with the intention of contesting the party leadership in a race for district leader against incumbant DeSapio — easily the most important Democrat at that time in the state — in the 1957 party primary.

Bafarawa said he was one of those who drafted the APC constitution, explaining that some chieftains of the party, who were already recognised as leaders of the party in their states, were dislodged by the governors when they allegedly dropped their millions.

«We looked very closely at the U.S. Constitution when drafting this, and based on rights already in the Constitution, it abides by federal law.»

In March 2014, it was reported that the Implementation Committee had submitted a draft bill for amendment of the Constitution to the Attorney - General.

In October 2012, President John Mahama appointed a five - member Constitution Review Implementation Committee (the «Implementation Committee») to undertake the preparatory steps, including drafting the appropriate bills, necessary to implement the recommendations of the CRC.

«A declaration that the Minister of Defence acted in contravention of articles 58 (1), 75 and 93 (2) of the 1992 Constitution when he laid or caused to be laid before Parliament an unexecutive draft of the supposed defence cooperation agreement for ratification under Article 75 of the 1992 Constitution.»

«AAAS Pacific Division: A Century of Meetings» traces the division from the drafting of its constitution in 1914, its participation at AAAS» annual meeting in 1915, and its first meeting, held in San Diego the following year.

There are some amazing stories behind Camilla Nielsson's feature - length documentary debut, Democrats, which documents three and a half years of behind - the - scenes drama and chicanery in Zimbabwe as a cross-party coalition attempts to draft a new constitution under the watchful eye of a newly free press and dictator Robert Mugabe.

The Constitution itself was drafted and adopted in large part because of the intractable problems that interest group politics, or the problem of «faction» as James Madison described it, posed for the states under the Articles of Confederation.2 «Complaints...

In drafting the US Constitution, Southern states wanted slaves counted as full persons to increase those states» congressional representation, but without giving them full rights.

The court also upheld the right of school governing bodies to draft the religious policies for their schools in line with the Schools Act and the Constitution.

When Florida drafted Article IX of its Constitution in 1967, school boards operated, controlled and supervised almost every public school in the state, and it was hard to imagine public education working any other way.

In order to help parents, teachers, other voters (and even our Supreme Court) determine who is right in this debate, we will take a quick trip down memory lane back to 1889 and the drafting of the Washington state constitutioIn order to help parents, teachers, other voters (and even our Supreme Court) determine who is right in this debate, we will take a quick trip down memory lane back to 1889 and the drafting of the Washington state constitutioin this debate, we will take a quick trip down memory lane back to 1889 and the drafting of the Washington state constitution.