Sentences with phrase «national constitutional convention»

There have been calls for a new national constitutional convention.

Also at 7 p.m., the Gertrude and Morrison Parker West Side Republican Club hosts Mark Meckler, founder of the Tea Party Patriots and president of the Convention of States Project, for a discussion of holding a national constitutional convention, The Jewish Center, Blue Room, 131 W. 86th St., 10th floor, Manhattan.

The Mercer family supports a tea party - inspired national constitutional convention of states.

Not exact matches

Constitutional historians Alfred H. Kelly and Winifred A. Harbison (writing nearly twenty years before Roe v. Wade) pointed out that the first Republican national convention in 1856 had appealed to the Fifth Amendment's due process clause, and so did Southern spokesmen:

As a politician, when the country was again returning to constitutional rule in 1992, the former Presidential Guard and others formed the People's National Convention (PNC) with Dr Limann again as the presidential candidate.

A British «constitutional convention» would presumably adopt (or suggest to a national referendum the adoption of) a truly written constitution specifying the ways that a clearly «federalized» country will operate in the future.

A constitutional convention has at its heart an assembly of citizens charged with making proposals for the basic rules of the political system, e.g., the voting system or the creation of new national or regional law - making bodies.

He suggested Labour should make a constitutional convention central to the Brexit debate to look at devolving the powers that will be repatriated from Brussels to regional mayors and national assemblies.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

This feeling can only be addressed by a comprehensive and fundamental debate about the way we run organise our national civic and political life and a constitutional convention is the way to start it.

The panel included a history of New York's 11 state constitutional conventions since 1777 (by me) and an argument why New York's upcoming referendum was of national interest (by Sandy Levinson).

Essentially, the national court asks whether Simmenthal II applies to the ECHR now that article 6 (3) TEU states that «Fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, shall constitute general principles of the Union's law».

Moreover, the constitutional perspective adopted by the book encompasses the relationship between national constitutions and the EU as well as the relationship between the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU in the fields of policing, criminal law and data protection.

The case was brought by the Public Law Project, a national legal charity that promotes access to justice, on the basis that the residence test would, if implemented, violate fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed by the common law and the European Convention on Human Rights, as incorporated into United Kingdom law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

This reminds me of one Lithuanian President that sent the ratification of its country accession to the ECHR to its national constitutional court, in order for them to check if the accession of Lithuania to the Convention is constitutional:)-RRB-

2) apart from the fact that CJEU stated that even before EU exercising its power, the MS must still act - when they have the power to do so - in a matter which does not jeopardise or prejudice the EU, so that the mere «potential» competence does have an effect, limitating the MS action, the parallel is that a negative rule is still a rule, so that the existence of the rule makes the matter «regulated»: - as for the JHA, I must say that whilst I agree with you on the merits, I can see the issue raised by the CJEU, since it is quite the same raised by some national Constitutional Courts, i.e. that ECHR standards may be in conflict with national standards and formally speaking the ECHR is a treaty and therefore has a lower rank that national Constititions, and the decision of the ECHR on the interpretation of such standards within the context of the Convention does not bind the national Constitutional Court in interpreting the national Constitution standards: e.g..

The Italian constitutional Court has upheld national rules which had been judged by the ECHR as contrary to the Convention, arguing that such rules nevertheless protected a different constitutional principle of the national constitution and the convention could not modify the constitution, beng it a lower rank act - so from a theoretical point of view the CJEU adopts the same approach: the ultimate decision on whether a EU act is in compliance with EU law must be taken within EU only (to make a parallel, think of the CJEU approach for WTO decisions: despite an action being contrary to WTO as decided by the appellate body, nonetheless individuals can use such illegality as a ground to void the action within the Convention, arguing that such rules nevertheless protected a different constitutional principle of the national constitution and the convention could not modify the constitution, beng it a lower rank act - so from a theoretical point of view the CJEU adopts the same approach: the ultimate decision on whether a EU act is in compliance with EU law must be taken within EU only (to make a parallel, think of the CJEU approach for WTO decisions: despite an action being contrary to WTO as decided by the appellate body, nonetheless individuals can use such illegality as a ground to void the action within the convention could not modify the constitution, beng it a lower rank act - so from a theoretical point of view the CJEU adopts the same approach: the ultimate decision on whether a EU act is in compliance with EU law must be taken within EU only (to make a parallel, think of the CJEU approach for WTO decisions: despite an action being contrary to WTO as decided by the appellate body, nonetheless individuals can use such illegality as a ground to void the action within the EU system)

«Shifts in Gun Politics, Policy and Constitutional Law,» American Constitution Society's National Convention 2016, Washington, DC, June 10, 2016