Sentences with phrase «of constitutional reform»

This convention represented the first attempt by any Irish government to provide for a citizen - led programme of constitutional reform.

The challenge is therefore to maintain the momentum, whether by getting manifesto commitments from parties or exploring options for pilots to include citizen voices in the process of constitutional reform.

In section 2 of this Chapter I discuss the need for and significance of constitutional reform.

This list should go beyond the party's favourite areas of constitutional reform and environmental protection and include areas of high public interest.

The current system has arisen out of a series of a long series of constitutional reforms.

Scottish politics at this time was dominated by the question of constitutional reform.

I believe that there are a number of significant outcomes for us as a result of constitutional reform.

Supporters of constitutional reform have a spring in their step.

My party has a proud record of constitutional reform.

It is the latest instalment in a programme of constitutional reform, which the government has been pursuing in a leisurely and random fashion since it came into power in 1997.

Interestingly, only four are in the area of constitutional reform.

So, after the attempts by the former lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, to abolish himself in June 2003, the signing of the Concordat in January 2004, the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act in 2005 and then its implementation in April 2006, the judiciary had hoped for a period of consolidation as the lord chief justice settled into his new role as head of the judiciary.

From 1944, when Iceland adopted what was essentially a translation of the Danish constitution from 1849, Parliament had consistently failed to keep its promise of constitutional reform.

The package of constitutional reforms signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gül on Wednesday dominated the news agenda in the country as it progressed through vote after vote in parliament, with politicians and the public debating the effects the changes might have on Turkey's military, courts, and politics.

Vernon Bogdanor has established a formidable reputation as a constitutional historian and his The New British Constitution (Hart Publishing # 17.95) will prove a must - have bluffer's guide for those of us grappling with the challenges of constitutional reform.

This was the case with the classic 18th century founding moments of Philadelphia and Paris, but also in the three great waves of constitutional reform in the 20th century: in Western Europe following World War Two; in newly decolonised countries in the 1960s and 70s and in Eastern Europe after 1989.

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): Ministers have received two letters and one Parliamentary Question from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 29 September 2008 (Official Report, col. WA416) specifically about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.»

Failure to deliver on the most important aspects of constitutional reform would, of course, be a bitter blow to Liberal Democrats.

With a few notable exceptions, primarily in the context of constitutional reform in western Europe and in the post-Soviet world, genuinely comparative studies of the origins and consequences of constitutional transformation and judicial empowerment are still rare, and often lack coherent methodology.

In its first wave of constitutional reform for this session, the government will publish a bill on Thursday to change the way electoral registration is organised, moving it from a household basis to an individual basis.

There was a lot of constitutional reform from 1997 - 2001, albeit piecemeal.

This was an ongoing process of constitutional reform with the Ministry of Justice as lead ministry.

Two further lessons that we should draw from the AV referendum are that Labour is far from united on the issue of constitutional reform, and that any reform will become party - politicised beyond repair if any one party is seen to be openly pushing it.

As he sees it, Madison's activities, especially during the decisive years of constitutional reform, have been widely misunderstood — resulting in accounts of the founder's political thought that would have «pained and puzzled» him.

For historians of constitutional reform, such ad hocery comes as no surprise.

In the fourth of politics.co.uk's week - long series of features on the coalition government, we look at the frenzied pace of constitutional reform.

Here's some brief notes about developments on the nitty - gritty of constitutional reform, from today's deputy prime minister's questions.

He calls Khan a «pygmy» when compared with other «giants of constitutional reform».

16:53 - Graham Allen, the chair of the constitutional reform select committee, pressures Khan to pledge to enter into talks with the government through the usual channels if the programme motion is defeated tomorrow night.

However, this ultimately proved to be an empty threat, demonstrating the potential vulnerability of constitutional reform to democratic backsliding.

Little had changed by the time of the 2001 general election despite the plethora of constitutional reforms in Blair's first term.

At a partisan level, also during the Thatcher era, the cause of constitutional reform was taken up by the SDP - Liberal Alliance made up of the Social Democratic Party, which had split off from the Labour Party in 1981, and the more established Liberal Party.

Gordon Brown doesn't even sound convincing when he talks of constitutional reform, he obviously believes in it, but it still seems like second priority to him.

Even so, I would never suggest that those who call for an English Parliament should have their bank accounts frozen, advocates of Scottish independence banned from standing for office, or proponents of constitutional reform prevented from leaving the country, in the same way that dissidents in the Soviet Union were once denied exit visas.

Clegg can hardly be seen to take this rebuff to the centrepiece of his constitutional reform programme with total equanimity.

The Prime Minister is «not being straight with the British people» over the cost and complexity of constitutional reform, Ed Balls said.

Before the election, Robin Cook and Robert Maclennan negotiated a crucial agreement bringing together key elements of constitutional reform such as devolution, the incorporation of the ECHR [European Convention on Human Rights] into UK law and reform of the House of Lords.

Without Ashdown and his party, and the timing that brought him together with Tony Blair, it's doubtful whether the priority of constitutional reform would have made such a mark as it has in the last 18 months.

If it does, politics, not least the politics of constitutional reform, will be the loser, and the white paper on Lords reform shows why.

Corbyn was signalling he wished to emphasise these issues instead of constitutional reform.

John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is also sceptical, regarding the issue as a distraction, and some cabinet sources expect as many as 40 Labour MPs to rebel when the amendment is debated on Tuesday as part of the constitutional reform bill.

Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko proposes a referendum on the format of Constitutional reform - Parliamentary versus Presidential system of governance [144]

The junior minister in charge of constitutional reform, Mark Harper, acknowledged then that «currently the first three members of the royal family in line to the throne are all male and so we have some time until there may be a pressing issue to address».

A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.