Sentences with phrase «of a written constitution»

The primary concern of Brutus is that judicial review is a stealth weapon implicit in the idea of a written Constitution that would be used by the evildoing Federalists to dispower the states.

It would have been helpful had Robert Bork laid out the evidence he merely mentions in claiming that the moral and political havoc wreaked by the Supreme Court «is the inevitable result of our written Constitution and the power of judicial review.»

Contemporary organised demand for constitutional reform traces back to the late 1970s, yet even before then, isolated intellectuals — «a voice crying in the wilderness» — had tried to make an issue out of a written constitution for Britain that would include a Bill of Rights.

Politics is more akin to a mirror than a comb, and the unwritten constitution of hearts and minds constrains the interpretive boundaries of the written Constitution.

In one of his first speeches as prime minister, Mr Brown called for widespread constitutional reform, including the prospect of a written constitution.

The question of a written constitution... [is] an issue on which I hope all parties can work together in a spirit of partnership and patriotism.

The advocates of a written constitution got their biggest chance with the advent of New Labour.

The fact that it has changed in the same general direction as the US is evidence that the presence of a written constitution doesn't actually make that much difference.

Graham Allen, the Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, set up by the House of Commons in 2010 with an open - ended remit to «consider political and constitutional reform» (Political and Constitutional Reform Committee 2010b), is a Labour Party MP who has been described as a «long - term champion of a written constitution» (Atkins 2014).

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Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention's sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the often painful process of writing the Constitution.

To do so is to undermine both the power of the democratically elected legislatures and the certainty of the written constitution provisions.

If PM Blair never entertained the idea of a written constitution, his successor, Gordon Brown, is remembered, contrastingly, for his commitment to it (Kelly 2014).

The UK is, of course, famous for its lack of a written constitution.

My view is that a principled case can and should be advanced for the third of the options — that of a written constitution (a statement telling us in exemplary form only what we might have) being «a document of basic law by which the United Kingdom would be governed, setting out the relationship between the state and its citizens, an amendment procedure and elements of reform.»