Sentences with phrase «over changes to the constitution»

Ruling party and opposition Turkish lawmakers on Monday exchanged punches and kicks and hurled water bottles at each other as a new mass brawl erupted in parliament over changes to the constitution, television broadcasts showed.

Not exact matches

The self is a movable and malleable target, one that adapts to changing circumstances, revising its constitution repeatedly over the course of an individual life, taking on strikingly different colorations at different times.

The people may, of course, change the Constitution, and in this sense their will appears to take precedence over the supreme law of the land.

The six decades during which she has straddled the roles both of head of state and of Supreme Governor of the Church of England have witnessed such societal change that it is almost as if her detractors are waiting patiently for her to leave the stage, before redeveloping the constitution over which the Queen presides.

MPs who are worried about their futures do not want to speak publicly about the process, but one said privately: «What Corbyn and [John] McDonnell want is to change the constitution to ensure the left have control of the party in the long run and that a Corbyn supporter takes over from Jeremy.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

Instead, the governor has used the veto as a stick in negotiations over how to change the constitution — he has denounced the first draft of lines as «hyper - partisan» — but so far there has been no agreement.

Legislators, in an all night session, took the first step to change the state's constitution to require lawmakers convicted of a felony to forfeit their pensions, in answer to public outcry over dozens of Senators and Assembly members, including the two former leaders of the legislature keeping healthy pensions even though many have been sentenced to prison.

Over the years, we have made «amendments» (changes) to the Constitution to protect everyone's freedom.

Is there any chance that a change in the constitution might make it possible for the Royal Collection and its curators to take over Tate Britain?

According to constitutioncenter.org, over 11,000 amendments (defined as a minor change to a document to the Constitution) have been introduced to Congress.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.

According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and retention process, and 69 percent support amending the constitution to make this change.

While the North Carolina Constitution was radically changed after the end of Reconstruction and during the Jim Crow era to restore some legislative power over the courts, judicial elections remained.

Compelling evidence that constitutions change meaning and institutions change functions over time seems not to disturb their certainty; their own lived experience that statutes, regulations, judicial decisions, and practical professional knowledge all have a limited shelf - life seems not to alter their insistence on law's immutability.

He was referring to Breyer's book of the same name that propounds his theory of a Constitution with a meaning that changes over time.