Sentences with phrase «means of this new constitution»

The great change we seek by means of this new constitution is to replace one form of democracy with another.

Not exact matches

Yet, even if the preferred outcomes might vary, there has been a general degree of agreement about the need to employ a process that respects the words of the Constitution by not reading new meanings into them and instead defers to democratic institutions.

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

The Second Great Awakening (1800 - 1830), coming shortly after the Constitution had launched the republic, defined what it meant to be «an American,» and what was the manifest destiny of the new nation.

Prisoners of the standard narrative, they mistakenly believe that Vatican II meant to sever the Church from her past, and to set up, as one theologian has risibly put it, a new «constitution» for the Catholic Church.

If by the «primitive church» we mean the church of the first century and the first quarter, say, of the second — and such a period represents the approximate range of this chapter — we have at most only the New Testament documents and some of the Apostolic Fathers; and none of these documents is concerned to set forth in any full or systematic way the constitution of the church or the methods of its work.

The Council had the power to appoint all State, county and municipal officials within the state of New York for which no other means of appointment or election was provided for in the State Constitution.

The shadow chancellor's move has caused concern in Labour ranks because two of his new advisers are or have recently been members of other political parties, with which Labour is not meant to engage under its constitution.

I stand to be corrected, but I assume Doe Adjaho was in a dilemma not knowing what the Constitution meant by saying «where the president and the vice - president are both unable to perform the function of the president, the speaker of parliament shall perform those function until the president or vice president is able to perform those function or a new president assumes office as the case may be» (11).

for all students in the eighth and higher grades, instruction in the history, meaning, significance and effect of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of New York and the amendments thereto, as required by section 801 of the Education Law;

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

The far - reaching consequences, combined with the fact that Holmes contradicts the plain meaning of the state constitution, may be enough to persuade the new bench to overturn or at least narrowly limit the Holmes precedent.

Interestingly, it's not clear what the appellate order means since the court of appeals agreed with the prosecution that «Mr. Stern's new trial motion could not be granted... [b] ut... what can occur to Mr. Stern once the remittur issues is limited by the double jeopardy provisions of our Constitutions.»

Both the Georgia and New York decisions relied entirely on analysis of the state constitution, which means that there's no basis for further review at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some states had direct appeals of criminal convictions earlier than this but the writ of habeas corpus does precede a direct appeal as a form of relief from a wrongful criminal conviction historically and was the primary means by which one could obtain relief from a criminal conviction in 1789 when the U.S. Constitution, which preserved the right to seek a writ of habeas corpus even before the Bill of Rights added most other new criminal procedure rights under the constitution, Constitution, which preserved the right to seek a writ of habeas corpus even before the Bill of Rights added most other new criminal procedure rights under the constitution, constitution, was adopted.