Sentences with phrase «other constitutional reforms»

There is discussion (twice) about the Church of England but the ECHR and Human Rights Act 1998 is relegated to a passing reference in a paragraph towards the end under the heading «Other constitutional reforms».»

Given the concessions on electoral reform and fixed term parliaments that the Conservatives were forced to make as part of the Coalition Government, they are unlikely to allow themselves to be pushed into other constitutional reforms in the immediate future.

The Deputy Prime Minister said there could be «no ifs, no buts» about delivering extra powers to Scotland, adding that the package «can not be made contingent on other constitutional reforms».

«I don't think they have helped themselves with bloodcurdling threats about withdrawing support for other constitutional reform of the House of Commons,» Bray told Channel 4 News.

Not exact matches

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

On the other hand Menem and Fujimori have had to innovate this by urgently instituting legislations, constitutional reforms or doing coups d'etat.

Although speculating that the approaches from his main political rivals represented the «latest wheeze by Labour and the Tories to take the best of Lib Dem ideas and call them their own,» Mr Clegg said he was willing to work with other parties on constitutional reform.

There were other, lesser reforms (the constitutional status of which might be disputed), like the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, which regulated political donations and the conduct of referendums.

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

[1] The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), League of Women Voters of New York State, and other good government groups jointly write to Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to reform the constitutional convention delegate selection process.

[i] «The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

But the political parties are playing with fire if they think Lords reform can be ignored, just when other parts of the constitutional jigsaw, such as the Scottish and English questions, are being so radically recast.

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

Brown parried, in his reshuffle news conference, setting out the «three legs» of his strategy, including public services tailored to the individual, constitutional reform and some other stuff, but people had already lost interest.

The League says state lawmakers who were also against the constitutional convention now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.

The deputy party leader's comments echo those of Richard Reeves, who stood down last week as Clegg's director of strategy and suggested that Lib Dems would retaliate by blocking other constitutional measures if the prime minister failed to persuade Tory MPs to support Lords reform.

While the other reforms simply need to pass the legislature, the pension changes must come with a constitutional amendment and voter approval in 2017.

This is based on the controversial policy of «constructive opposition» - cooperating with the Government on areas of agreement, like constitutional reform and, as announced last week, a common European foreign and security policy, and opposing it on others.

Under the Ashdown formula, the Liberal Democrats have worked with Labour on areas of mutual interest, such as constitutional reform, but have opposed the Government in other areas such as spending on health and education and preparation for the euro.

The problem is that, as a traditional driver of voting intention, constitutional reform ranks behind just about every other measure you can think of - even more so in a recession.

While some government reform groups have signed on to a deal that includes a constitutional amendment for reform in the future, others have not.

The incoming majority Conservative government has opted to abolish the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, which unlike the other commons committees does not exist on a statutory basis.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie opposes the idea of a constitutional convention while a number of government reform groups see it as the best chance to enact ethics and other reforms.

The League says state lawmakers who were also again the constitutional convention, now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.

Other cabinet ministers, including James Purnell - who is pushing for a swift review of party funding to clean up another area of concern to voters - Harriet Harman and Hilary Benn are also backing a debate on constitutional and electoral reforms.

Turning to the other English parties, the Liberal Democrat's thin, sketchy and whiney manifesto — full of complaints that the big boys ruined their plans for constitutional reform — might well qualify as the shortest suicide note in history.

Along with other hardline unionists, he left in protest at reforms and became an early member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, serving as the party chairman in 1975 and being elected to the Constitutional Convention in the same year.

DiNapoli called for a host of reforms to curtail state borrowing, including a constitutional amendment to limit total debt to 5 % of New York's personal income and a ban on so - called back - door borrowing — the issuance of state - funded debt through public authorities and other entities.

Despite all the fiscal and other challenges paralyzing Connecticut, there is an opportunity in the 2017 special legislative session to take the first real step toward comprehensive, rational and constitutional education funding reform.

However, he did criticise as «broad and ill - defined» a statutory requirement (s 2 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) that the Lord Chancellor have experience as a Minister, be an MP or Peer, a legal practitioner, a university law teacher and any other experience the prime minister considers relevant.

Professor Magnet is featured prominently in the recently - released Federalism for the Future: Essential Reforms along with other well - regarded experts on constitutional law and federalism issues, including G.A. Beaudoin, Benoit Pelletier, Gordon Robertson, and John Trent.

The Constitution Act has indeed proved to be a genuine «people's package» and has become a model for other nations in their quest for constitutional reform.

By analogy, the US oath of allegiance, which requires immigrants (and others) to «support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States» (with the Constitution playing the role in the US that the Monarchy does here) does not preclude you from advocating that the Constitution be changed or reformed, it just mandates that you do so in a manner that is in keeping with the US legal and constitutional order.

I congratulate the Australian Government and all other political parties who have embarked on this journey of constitutional reform to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of our nation.