Sentences with phrase «number of constitutional issues»

While a number of constitutional issues clearly require attention, much of what currently ails UK (in particular, English) politics are not specifically constitutional in nature, but are rather a symptom of how we practice democratic politics.

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Beyond this, it is an open question as to whether this initiative mechanism should be limited only to constitutional issues, or rather become an agenda - setting device for generating a citizens» assembly on any broad political issue where the relevant number of signatures can be collected.

If a petition on an issue pertaining to the constitution collects a specified number of signatures from citizens (or those authorized) within a specified time period, the petition launches a constitutional convention.

While a number of state legislatures have called on Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United or address the related issue of corporate «personhood,» few have taken the route of asking Congress to call for a constitutional convention.

The whole affair has raised major concerns about the way political parties are funded, and the constitutional affairs committee is one of a number of bodies looking at the issue.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

There are a number of issues that a constitutional convention could address, including whether to limit lawmakers» outside income.

By early evening, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders had reached a deal on a number of issues including a redistricting plan, expansion of the state's DNA data base, pension reform, and a constitutional amendment to allow up to seven new gambling casinos in New York.

Smart said, «In any constitutional democracy, the number of times one represents a constituency is not the issue; the yardstick is performance.

But creating such divisions will raise, among other issues, difficult constitutional issues as to mandatory provincial representation by designated numbers of justices on the Supreme Court of Canada.

There are now a number of high quality academic blogs that offer case or issues analysis sometimes within days (or hours) of a major constitutional decision being handed down.

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I reproduce the speech here in its entirety, and it touches on a number of interesting issues, including the challenges of constitutional reform, changing societal values, patriation, the tensions in federalism, and the need for a constitutional Bill of Rights, a full 15 years before the Charter was enacted.

The re-unification of Germany in 1990 dealt with a number of important legal and constitutional issues, and the fact that Germany was a unique case does not detract from the valuable precedent this situation gave.

This is despite the fact that the Supreme Court has dealt with as many provincial as federal references in the last fifty years, that most of them have been unanimous, and that a number of them have dealt with major constitutional issues.

Having concluded that, as a matter of empirical fact (on which more below), the fees at issue deter substantial numbers of people from pursuing their claims, the Court asked itself whether «the text of» the statute pursuant to which the fees were imposed by the executive, «but also the constitutional principles which underlie the text, and the principles of statutory interpretation which give effect to those principles» [65] provided authority for setting the fees at their current level.

It may be true as a practical matter in a substantial number of cases, because many constitutional issues wind up in court and the court must decide the constitutional issue to decide the case and the executive does not have discretion to decline to enforce that resulting judgment.

Kissel has represented a number of universities in relation to a variety of constitutional issues, including issues related to university funding, constitutional autonomy, and academic freedom.

More broadly, this ruling will be studied closely by constitutional lawyers as it addresses a number of central issues, including the interplay between the Government's executive powers in international law and legislative sovereignty, the powers of the Court to supervise the exercise of prerogative powers particularly where existing law or rights are affected, and the fundamentally political, not legal, nature of the Sewel Convention on consultation of devolved legislatures.

In recent years, change in the Canadian legal landscape has been fuelled by two dominant factors: first, the growing influence of constitutional concerns, including federal / provincial division of powers issues and a variety of matters arising from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and second, the burgeoning number and power of Charter - oriented administrative tribunals that play an increasingly influential role in our complicated, interest - based society.

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