Sentences with phrase «of elected legislatures»

Moral approval of results, an approval that will never be unanimous and will frequently be a minority view, is not of itself sufficient to justify judges in overriding the moral choices of elected legislatures.

In other sovereign states, including the US, constitutions and Bills of Rights are characterised by their supreme authority over legislation, limiting the powers of the elected legislature.

Not exact matches

Party leaders are centralizing authority and muting the voices of duly - elected members, warns the legislature's Speaker.

As president - elect of the National Conference of State Legislatures, state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D - Olympia Fields, sent the four Congressional leaders a letter Nov. 16 opposing elimination of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction.

«This year we have a lot to celebrate here in B.C. — with a record number of Indigenous people elected to our B.C. legislature, to all three parties.

Mr. Graham was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1998, representing the riding of Kent.

He was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1998, and became leader of the New Democratic Party in 2002.

Paul Hinman is the leader of the Wildrose Alliance Party, and the only member of the party to be elected to the Alberta legislature.

Recently elected French President Emmanuel Macron's consolidation of power in the legislature offers opportunities for pro-business reforms.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

Perry has been getting ample good press lately, and below Pete adds two new favorable stories — one of which adds a new wrinkle by showing his formidable talents as a thrice elected, institutionally weak governor who can effectively deal with a largely simpatico Republican legislature.

Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority - elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.

If the Scourge of the Deplorables is elected, it will be essential, over the next four years, to maintain the tension between an aggressive Clinton administration and the national legislature.

This emasculation of duly (if only by whites) elected officials reached near completion in the new emergency regulations of December 11, 1986, which abolished one of the most sacred aspects of the quasi-Westminster system that the Nationalists used to boast of: the freedom of debate and speech in the legislature.

The chimpanzee using a stick to get eggs from an anthill, a child figuring out how to tie her wagon to a tricycle, and the country politician developing a strategy to get elected to the legislature all illustrate the interweaving of imagining ends and inventing means.

It is Artie who is most eager for a visitor to meet Uncle Jim Rooney, who after World War I served as one of the youngest men ever elected to the Pennsylvania legislature, and who went on to give away all the money he ever made to people who said they needed it more than he did.

Some people contend that it was because of the publicity he got while directing her career that Ernie's old coach, Bernard Newman, a high school teacher, was elected to the Windsor council and, eventually, to the legislature.

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

The Senate is elected in three classes, one every 2 years, and was originally elected by the state legislatures (putting a filter for lack of a better word between the people and their Senator).

There is legitimacy in elected legislatures and governments because they necessarily have some degree of popular support (and it is possible to change them at the next election).

«New Yorkers elected a Democratic majority to represent them in both chambers of the legislature, and Gov. Cuomo has an obligation to stand up and ensure that the will of the voters is respected in the New York Senate,» said the group's executive director, Jessica Post.

The upper house of the legislature is elected on an ethnic basis, similar to the presidency; each voter in the Federation can either vote for Croat or for Bosniak candidates, not for both; the Federation elects 10 members.

If we are to have two elected chambers, then we should at least use the opportunity not just to remove Peers from the legislature but also to get rid of all Peers titles.

Russian voters will elect 450 deputies to Russia's State Duma on Sunday, in the seventh election for the lower chamber of Russia's bicameral Federal Assembly since the legislature's founding in 1993.

In 1911, Roosevelt as a newly elected state senator blocked the Tammany Hall - appointee for the U.S. Senate, back when Legislatures had that power, which was ultimately a way of granting patronage posts.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

Washington's state legislature is made up of 49 districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.

Venditto, an attorney and son of Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, was first elected to the legislature in 2012.

But despite electing a Democratic governor and state legislature, we still can't pass the kind of progressive legislation seen in California, Massachusetts and other Democratic - controlled states.

«If you look at the New York State legislature, there's been an uptick of women that are elected and many of them came from New York City and particularly Brooklyn,» Carr said, referring to the Assembly.

Westchester voters have written another chapter in the history of the Women's Rights Movement, electing a legislature with a majority of women for the first time in the county's history.

Abbate, a Democrat elected in 1986 to represent Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, has yet to formally announce his intentions on the seat but has advertised them openly to local politicos (sources said he has not been shy about mentioning the appeal of the almost $ 70,000 salary bump he would get serving in the local legislature, and the corresponding benefits to his pension).

Curran, 49, of Baldwin, was elected to the county legislature in 2013, after working as a daily newspaper reporter and serving one term on Baldwin's school board.

«For decades the legislative leaders of both parties have had far too much power to thwart the will of the people and their elected representatives by holding bills in committee thereby preventing an up or down vote by the legislature.

- Grace Meng, an assemblywoman and the daughter of the first Asian - American elected to the state legislature, who has also been touted as a borough - president candidate

New Jersey Assemblywoman Valerie Venieri - Huttle called the vetoes «a total rebuke to the ratepayers and the elected members of the legislature from both states.»

However, the Inca Empire (15th - 16th century CE), which never had anything approaching an elected legislature, had an economic system which was centrally planned (a common feature of economies laying claim to the name «socialist»), and in some respects recognizably redistributive.

He says Cuomo and the legislature have already approved one new budget since President Trump was elected, and they've heard the promises of the Republican - dominated Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, an effort that has so far failed.

It takes a majority of the legislature to elect a chair; Republicans have exactly 12 of 23.

Dan McCoy was elected in 2011 as Albany county's fourth executive: the former city firefighter once chaired the legislature, which holds much of the power to run the county.

If a member of the legislature be elected to congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, the state of New York, or under any city government except as a member of the national guard or naval militia of the state, or of the reserve forces of the United States, his or her acceptance thereof shall vacate his or her seat in the legislature, providing, however, that a member of the legislature may be appointed commissioner of deeds or to any office in which he or she shall receive no compensation.

No person shall serve as a member of the legislature unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and has been a resident of the state of New York for five years, and, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, of the assembly or senate district for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election; if elected a senator or member of assembly at the first election next ensuing after a readjustment or alteration of the senate or assembly districts becomes effective, a person, to be eligible to serve as such, must have been a resident of the county in which the senate or assembly district is contained for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election.

Working with the new majority in the Erie County legislature, I have been able to secure a new ethics law that increases transparency and reinforces public faith in the integrity of elected officials.

But it's clear that Gregorius, as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a small Democratic breakaway faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete as its chair.

It involves proposing a single amendment, winning approval of the measure by two consecutively elected state legislatures and then winning the OK of voters.

That needs the approval of two consecutively elected state legislatures.

«One of the most important things the legislature can do in an effort to restore some faith in the system is to pass the proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure elected officials like Sheldon Silver, who abused their office for their own personal benefit, would not receive a public pension,» said Little in a statement.

The legislature and governor even took a step backward from the agreement, when they failed to follow through on a deal to take steps to deny pensions to elected officials convicted of felonies.

Curran's policy, which could be implemented by executive order, would not apply to political campaigns or independently elected officials, such as members of the county legislature, comptroller, district attorney and county clerk.

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