Sentences with phrase «making by referendum»

Geoffrey Robertson's article sums up the political background very succinctly: «Our democracy does not allow, much less require, decision - making by referendum.

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Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Sponsors inserted in the laws a provision allocating $ 1 million to implement the laws, a shrewd way to make it harder to overturn the laws by referendum because Michigan's constitution bars challenges of spending bills.

He also emphasized that the reality of Brexit has proven to be «quite unlike» the promises — less spending, improved public services, easier bilateral trade — made by pro-Brexit groups during the referendum campaign.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

Should these decisions be made by lawmakers and technocrats or popular votes and referenda?

MILESTONES By Valentina Pasquali The referendum that could make Scotland an independent nation is fast approaching, and authorities in London are preparing for the eventuality that it might pass.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has unveiled constitutional reform proposals that would make consultations by referendum easier, strengthen the largely ceremonial presidency somewhat and limit lawmakers» consecutive terms to 8...

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

Legislation to make it easier for voters to get a bond referendum placed on the ballot was signed into law by Gov. James Thompson.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

FRANKFORT — Summit Hill School District 161 board members approved the sale of $ 16.4 million in construction and renovation bonds this week, a move made possible by passage of a $ 23.9 referendum proposal in April for school construction and renovation.

Opponents of holding a constitutional convention have over the last several weeks geared up their opposition to the coming referendum, arguing it could scale back gains made by organized labor, wreck the environment in he Adirondacks and be dominated by monied interest groups.

The Liberal Democrats have been making a concerted effort to oust Kate Hoey out of Vauxhall mainly by alerting voters to the fact that Hoey spent much of the EU referendum hanging out with Nigel Farage.

Despite the millions of pounds and countless words spent by both sides of the campaign there is little evidence that it has made much difference to the outcome of the referendum.

The voting threshold necessary to prompt the exit process was never actually decided at all as such prior to the referendum, but assumptions were made by politicians and journalists about what would be politically acceptable to an emergent notion of popular sovereignty.

For example, it proposes an automatic referendum trigger to approve increases in council tax beyond the ceiling set by government, and seeks to make the setting of senior pay in local authorities more transparent.

Grayling's awkward interview comes after former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine vented his fury ay Johnson on Tuesday, stating that the former London mayor may have ruined his chances of becoming prime minister by behaving «irresponsibly [and] recklessly» and making «preposterous, obscene political remarks» during the referendum campaign.

Much has been made by the SNP of a second referendum taking place when it is the «will of the Scottish people».

Sturgeon is now expected to make a formal request for a referendum, which she says could take place by spring 2019 — before Brexit is complete, to allow Scotland to maintain its ties with the EU.

In the wake of the Scottish referendum, as all parties face up to the reality that the devolutionary genie is well and truly out of the bottle, and with a powerful economic case being made by the City Growth Commission and others, the «DevoManc» deal is an idea whose time has come.

Many of us didn't love the outcome but he needs to show how he can make it work by being an effective leader and helping shape the negotiations instead of only reaching for the second referendum lever.

It played a small part in the Scottish referendum last time but the SNP were able to shut the issue down to a point by making the obvious argument that Britain was able to keep the pound in the EU, so Scotland should be able to too.

They will be joined by Smith who today called for a «confirmatory referendum, once the reality of Brexit is revealed» and made it clear that he would not support the prime minister «recklessly pursuing a Brexit of any sort, and at any cost».

It was meant to get such a process rolling by making the interests of the populace clear, though Congress was well aware of this movement and had previously allocated funds for the referendum to be held.

Much more important, no question of a second referendum to give people a chance to change their minds because circumstances have changed, or because the promises made by Brexit supporters have proved to be no more than pipe dreams.

However a former foe from the EU referendum campaign then popped up on social media to suggest that Gove knew a thing or two about distortion by pointing to some of the more eye - catching but controversial claims made by the Leave campaign that Gove led.

Earlier this year, I wrote to Iain McNicol, the general secretary of the Labour party, to ask him to investigate a donation reported by the Electoral Commission of # 18,500 made by Labour Leave into Ukip party coffers, just three days before the EU referendum.

The Tories» EU referendum bill is being ignored by Labour - and making much quicker progress through the Commons as a result.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defense teams.

The promise of an In / Out referendum under a Conservative Government late in the next Parliament will draw much of the poison that has plagued the party over the EU issue since Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech - by making it clear to those MPs and party members opposed to EU membership that in such circumstances they will have an opportunity to campaign for a No vote.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

By making their growing hostility to the EU clear, week - in - and - week - out, to their MPs, and by selecting more and more candidates who shared that same hostility, they helped push David Cameron into promising a referendum and then deserted him in droves when it was finally helBy making their growing hostility to the EU clear, week - in - and - week - out, to their MPs, and by selecting more and more candidates who shared that same hostility, they helped push David Cameron into promising a referendum and then deserted him in droves when it was finally helby selecting more and more candidates who shared that same hostility, they helped push David Cameron into promising a referendum and then deserted him in droves when it was finally held.

The shocking result was attributed by political observers to President Barack Obama's unpopularity at the time and Turner's success in making the race a referendum on Obama's policies.

With the PAC supporting Faso having been funded by Mercer and Singer, two major donors who have been outspoken in supporting GOP presidential candidates other than Trump, Heaney's full embrace of the brash developer might make this primary a referendum on whether the party's grassroots have fully coalesced around The Donald.

Theoretically every region or city can be occupied by other country, can be made genocide of one or several nationalities that are living there and after can be made referendum for independence by remaining people and to make new «country».

However, this referendum will be decided by the people, not politicians, and we hope the media will make sure their voice is heard as well.

Tedisco tried to make the race a referendum on Obama, but with Election Day only two months into the president's term, the Democrat, Scott Murphy, drafted on Democrats» big 2008 win, and eventually won by less than a thousand votes.

Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.

However, they have advocated a «maximalist» outcome, as consistent with the Vow made by party leaders in advance of the referendum.

The referendum could make the once deeply Catholic country the first in the world to adopt the policy by popular vote.

Yesterday's speech by David Cameron made clear his plans for renegotiation followed by a 2017 In - Out referendum.

London may have seized the initiative in the Scottish independence referendum debate, but it has by no means made certain it will get its way.

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It makes the amendment, which must be approved by two separately elected Legislatures and then by a voter referendum, a pretty broad stroke for altering the existing laws.

The Prime Minister, on the other hand, has made his own position extremely vulnerable later this summer, first by pledging last year to quit after two terms and second by going ahead with a perilous and unpredictable EU referendum.

By changing New York's definition of marriage, the state legislature essentially made an illegal amendment to the state constitution without the required statewide referendum.

Pete Wishart (SNP, skinny) makes a boo - boo by saying the referendum will take place in 1914.