Sentences with phrase «made on constitutional amendments»

The tactile quality of Rifle and American Flag invite contemplation on the lack of progress the United States has made on Constitutional Amendments, and how the country's history is evident in the present political climate.

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The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

Barbara Bartoletti with the League of Women Voters, who attended the speech, agreed that Cuomo will have to make an extra effort to get the proposals through the Senate and Assembly, but she said the constitutional amendments are likely «dead on arrival in the Legislature.»

He also stated that the association was excited by the progress made in the amendment of the Constitution by the National Assembly, adding that the «exercise would greatly remove all constitutional impediments on the granting of autonomy through financial and administrative independence to the Office of the Auditors - General at the federal, state and local governments in the country.»

«We've made an agreement that we will pass a constitutional amendment resolution on pension forfeiture and we still believe we're going to do that,» Heastie said this month.

Koch himself is due in Albany tomorrow in hopes of turning up the heat on the Republicans, who have been making noises about a constitutional amendment.

* The governor has called for a constitutional amendment to strip public pensions from legislators convicted of crimes, and yet this bill supports making the proposed language available only on obscure websites few voters will ever see.

After a federal court ruled this week upheld U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's push to clawback disgraced former Assemblyman Eric Stevenson's pension, Speaker Carl Heastie does not expect the move will make the Legislature change course on a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, who attended the speech, agrees that Cuomo will have to make an extra effort to get the proposals through the Senate and Assembly, but she says the constitutional amendments are likely «dead on arrival in the legislature.»

A state constitutional amendment on the November ballot — Proposal One on revising the state's redistricting procedure — would undoubtedly make things worse.

If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern... I promise more «effective leadership» than Kennedy on winning full equality for gays and lesbians... and I oppose a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and I support gays serving openly in the military.

When the Assembly came to order on June 17 for a session that would last until 5:09 a.m. the next day, it still needed to pass an anti-heroin package, a roll - back of the state's Blue Laws, the legalization of daily fantasy sports, a constitutional amendment that could make more elected officials convicted of felonies forfeit their pensions, a government transparency measure, and 57 other bills.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

Creating charters: Erika Donalds, a member of the Collier County School Board and the Florida Constitution Revision Commission, has already proposed constitutional amendments that would eliminate pay for school board members and impose term limits on them, end the election of school superintendents and allow legislators to «make provision» for educational services in addition to the free public schools.

We hold, therefore, that where, as here, the investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime, but has begun to focus on a particular suspect, the suspect has been taken into police custody, the police carry out a process of interrogations that lends itself to eliciting incriminating statements, the suspect has requested and been denied an opportunity to consult with his lawyer, and the police have not effectively warned him of his absolute constitutional right to remain silent, the accused has been denied «the Assistance of Counsel» in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution as «made obligatory upon the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,» Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. at 342, and that no statement elicited by the police during the interrogation may be used against him at a criminal trial.

It has been held in this ruling of the Constitutional Court that upon the entry into force of the Constitution, the legislature had the constitutional duty to regulate the citizenship relations of the Republic of Lithuania, inter alia, to correct the legal regulation established in the Law on Citizenship (wording of 5 December 1991 with subsequent amendments and supplements, made prior to the entry into force of the 1992 Constitution) and the Supreme Council Resolution «On the Procedure for Implementation of the Republic of Lithuania's Law on Citizenship» of 10 December 1991 so that this legal regulation would comply with the provisions of the Constitution, inter alia, ArticConstitutional Court that upon the entry into force of the Constitution, the legislature had the constitutional duty to regulate the citizenship relations of the Republic of Lithuania, inter alia, to correct the legal regulation established in the Law on Citizenship (wording of 5 December 1991 with subsequent amendments and supplements, made prior to the entry into force of the 1992 Constitution) and the Supreme Council Resolution «On the Procedure for Implementation of the Republic of Lithuania's Law on Citizenship» of 10 December 1991 so that this legal regulation would comply with the provisions of the Constitution, inter alia, Articconstitutional duty to regulate the citizenship relations of the Republic of Lithuania, inter alia, to correct the legal regulation established in the Law on Citizenship (wording of 5 December 1991 with subsequent amendments and supplements, made prior to the entry into force of the 1992 Constitution) and the Supreme Council Resolution «On the Procedure for Implementation of the Republic of Lithuania's Law on Citizenship» of 10 December 1991 so that this legal regulation would comply with the provisions of the Constitution, inter alia, Article 12 thereoon Citizenship (wording of 5 December 1991 with subsequent amendments and supplements, made prior to the entry into force of the 1992 Constitution) and the Supreme Council Resolution «On the Procedure for Implementation of the Republic of Lithuania's Law on Citizenship» of 10 December 1991 so that this legal regulation would comply with the provisions of the Constitution, inter alia, Article 12 thereoOn the Procedure for Implementation of the Republic of Lithuania's Law on Citizenship» of 10 December 1991 so that this legal regulation would comply with the provisions of the Constitution, inter alia, Article 12 thereoon Citizenship» of 10 December 1991 so that this legal regulation would comply with the provisions of the Constitution, inter alia, Article 12 thereof.

And it goes to the very limits of its logic, by questioning whether even an appropriate amendment of the Treaty would make it possible to overcome the arguments which prevent regulatory powers from being conferred on agencies or whether there are, in other words, underlying principles in Community law that are not susceptible of constitutional amendment, which can not be reconciled with recognition of regulatory powers in the hands of bodies other than the three institutions.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (the Committee) in its Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill (No 2) 2009 (Cth)(the Bill).

A number of submissions made to the Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill 200631 (by the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs) raised issues about the effectiveness of the tribunal in conducting mediation.32