Sentences with phrase «led constitutional convention»

Labour's manifesto includes an explicit call for a «people - led Constitutional Convention».

The first step however is for Labour to adopt these principles in their manifesto — and commit to a citizens - led constitutional convention on how to implement them.

In The Return of George Washington: 1783 - 1789, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important — yet almost always overlooked — chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.

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.

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At the Constitutional Convention the delegates rejected a proposal that would give the federal government the right to issue corporate charters, the general view being that corporations were a dangerous institution leading to monopoly and, worse, aristocracy.

Looks like we need to have a Constitutional Convention in 2017 to work around the dirty money TEAPublicans led by Dirty John Flanagan!

This convention represented the first attempt by any Irish government to provide for a citizen - led programme of constitutional reform.

The Irish Government has still to respond on these later reports, but already it is clear that the Convention recommendations on many matters will lead to the holding of referendums on specific issues in 2015; and we are likely to see real and significant constitutional change made as a result.

A coalition of groups — led by labor unions, environmental groups and conservative organizations — has formed to oppose the constitutional convention.

DiFiore first convened the panel last year leading up to this November's constitutional convention vote that failed.

Opponents of the constitutional convention, led by the state's major labor unions, say the event would have been too dangerous.

An initial project for its Constitution was rejected by a referendum in 1778, leading to the election of a new constitutional convention.

A confluence of factors led to the defeat of Republicans in key races on Tuesday, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said in an interview, disputing the theory a push to reject the constitutional convention may have also played a role.

Only Citizens Union, one of New York's leading government reform organizations (and sister organization to Gotham Gazette's publisher, Citizens Union Foundation), has consistently backed a constitutional convention, despite what was to many a disappointing outcome from the 1967 convention.

Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining.

Ireland's Constitutional Convention, based on the citizens» assembly model, recently led the way towards the legalisation of same - sex marriage.

However, those behind nypeoplesconvention.org — led by the good - government group Effective NY — say there is no risk to constitutional labor protections in holding a convention, and other issues supported by unions could be addressed through the amendment process.

The proposals listed on the back of the ballot could lead to sweeping changes in state laws through a New York constitutional convention, take away the pensions of public officials convicted of felonies, and make it easier to do road and utility work in the Adirondack Park Forest Preserve.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and...

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.

After reviewing many debates leading to constitutional convention defeats, I concluded that the debate discourse was often ill - informed, partly because of a lack of local experts on whom the press could rely for historical and comparative information about state constitutional conventions.

One of them, Sarah Rosen, led her school in a protest demonstration because her sixth - grade teacher would not allow girls to participate in a reenactment of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.