Sentences with phrase «known as the constitutional»

This is known as a constitutional delay, or being a «late bloomer.»

Theresa May's allies in parliament, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), have always insisted that the donation, channelled via a secretive group known as the Constitutional Research Council (CRC), complied fully with the law.

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In December, the Yukon appeal court sided with the Ross River Dena Council that existing free - entry staking rules conflicted with the constitutional duty to consult aboriginal groups with outstanding land claims, in this case to an area known as the Kaska.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

Gorsuch has argued that liberals are too quick to file lawsuits as a way to force change, even though there's «no doubt that constitutional lawsuits have secured critical civil - rights victories,» including desegregation.

If I were the president, I would take the partisan judicial activism masquerading as constitutional principle route, no matter what the Court decides.

According to Wikipedia, she is «the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and head of the 54 - member Commonwealth of Nations.

A judge ruled that California's voter - approved ban on same - sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, violated the constitutional rights of same - sex couples.

You eliminate the mandate by saying there can be no such mandate and you call the penalty that the law calls a penalty a tax because a tax in the absence of a mandate would be okay, and since there is no longer a mandate, it is possible to reimagine the penalty as a tax and therefore the new law without the mandate and the penalty, but with an optional tax, is constitutional even though that is not the law that Congress actually passed.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

If Mr. Trump takes office on January 20, 2017, it will be just as urgent to have a Congress as committed as possible to life, religious freedom, constitutional government, and colorblind equality as a counterbalance to who - knows - what will be coming out of the White House.

As you probably know, Californians recently voted in support of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that overturns a state Supreme Court decision that legalized same - sex unions.

Thomas Jefferson was of course in France at the time the constitutional amendments known as the Bill of Rights were passed by Congress and ratified by the States.

Once again we must come together as a nation and show those who would oppose us that no matter how much they may terrorize us they can never make us scared enough to deny any American their Constitutional rights no matter their race, religion or creed.

We know that something fundamental is being tampered with when a solid conservative like Sam Ervin of North Carolina denounces the Washington laws as violating constitutional rights.

The four prominent civil society organizations, known as the Quartet, were awarded the Nobel peace prize in October 2015 for their role in negotiating the constitutional bargain.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

Magna Carta, the Great Charter, as that agreement has come to be known, is held to be a milestone in the course of western constitutional thought.

In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriage rights.

The New York Boundaries of Senate Districts, Amendment 4, also known as Proposed Amendment No. 4, was on the ballot in New York on November 6, 1962, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.

The Arkansas Term Limits Proposed Amendment, also known as Proposed Amendment 4, was on the ballot in Arkansas on November 3, 1992, as an initiated constitutional amendment.

Obama knew he didn't have the support of 2/3 of the Senate to properly agree to the deal as a legitimate treaty, so he attempted to circumvent the Constitutional requirement for Senate ratification by making a non-binding deal.

The Supreme Court of California's decision to allow gay couples to marry ended when voters passed the constitutional amendment known as Proposition 8.

But now the law has been federally enshrined by the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, otherwise known as the Speech Act and Rory's help is getting serious recognition in the new book, «You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom.»

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

However, the «No» vote has not marked the end of constitutional politics as a new devolved settlement for Scotland is under way.

Every twenty years New Yorkers have a chance to convene a state Constitutional Convention, or «Con Con» as it's known in political circles.

The Volta Region is widely known as the world bank of the ruling National Democratic Congress since inception of 1992 constitutional democracy.

«We are particularly concerned about the failure on the part of successive governments and majority parties to address the well - known gaps and deficiencies in the 1992 Constitution such as overconcentration of legal and constitutional power in hands of the executive branch in general (especially the presidency), and indirectly, the governing political party.»

They have always known that independence is a long game — any kind of constitutional change is, as the Lords reform battle shows.

Graham Allen, now chair of the Commons» political and constitutional reform committee, recalls: «As we know from efforts to recall parliament before the Iraq war (which started this whole bloody story) MPs can not recall parliament, neither can the Speaker.

As a result of a 2006 lawsuit known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled the state education department was not adequately funding its schools, thus violating students» constitutional right to a sound, basic educatioAs a result of a 2006 lawsuit known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled the state education department was not adequately funding its schools, thus violating students» constitutional right to a sound, basic educatioas the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled the state education department was not adequately funding its schools, thus violating students» constitutional right to a sound, basic education.

Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas congressman who is known as a staunch constitutional conservative and currently holds one of the most powerful seats in Congress as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, won't seek re-election next year.

The unions also saw a pre-election win in the push to scale back the pension forfeiture constitutional amendment known as Prop. 2, which was also approved by the voters — albeit by a smaller margin than Prop. 1.

Funneling the payments to vice chairmen is not explicitly permitted by law, though Senate leadership and lawyers have tried to prove that there is a legal and constitutional basis for such stipends, commonly known as «lulus.»

Femi Falana, Human right activist and constitutional lawyer, has thrown his weight behind the third force movement of former President Olusegun Obasanjo known as Coalition for...

Jointly known as the Right to Know Act, the bills would obligate cops to provide extensive identification in stops that don't result in a summons or an arrest and to inform civilians of their constitutional right to refuse a search.

Although Bonacic said the Legislature must know in advance of a vote what the terms are, Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow, D - Mount Vernon, said the key is to first remove the constitutional ban on games of chance, and deal with issues such as casino locations later.

(Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas filed a separate decision because they disagreed with the other six justices» refusal to rule out the existence of a constitutional right not to have the government reveal personal information, known as «informational privacy.»

The United Mexican States, commonly known as Mexico, is a federal constitutional republic in North America.

Constitutional Amendments 1 - 10 make up what is known as The Bill of Rights.

The NAACP's civil - rights complaint is based on what's known nowadays as «disparate - impact analysis,» which is to say that if a seemingly objective and even - handed procedure yields a result that is not equitably distributed by race (or gender, handicapping condition, whatever), it is presumed to be discriminatory on grounds forbidden under sundry civil - rights laws and constitutional provisions.

At New York City's Urban Academy, students show what they know through a series of performance assessments, such as this mock trial in Constitutional Law class.

Although states bear formal responsibility for educating their citizens — the wording varies, but a typical example is Ohio's constitutional charge to its legislature to «secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state» — all but Hawaii have opted to deliver schooling through «local education agencies,» also known as school districts.

The report examines tax policies in 20 states that have circumvented public opposition or even constitutional obstacles to publicly funded private school vouchers by using their tax codes to either encourage donations to private school scholarship funds, also known as neovouchers or backdoor vouchers or to offset the cost of private school tuition.

The five justices on the state's high court have scheduled one hour of oral arguments to review a constitutional challenge to the vouchers, formally known as the Choice Scholarship Program.

In 2014, the State Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled that the state was failing to provide the poorest districts — known as the state's «corridor of shame» — with enough funding to meet the constitutional standard of a «minimally adequate education.»

These state constitutional amendments are collectively known as the Blaine Amendments.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

While we all know George Washington as our first president and leader of American forces in the Revolutionary War, in The Return of George Washington: 1783 - 1789, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Edward J. Larson illuminates another key role he played: leading the Constitutional Convention.