Sentences with phrase «prescribed by the constitution»

That we may, and ought, to resist, and even make war against those rulers who leap the bounds prescribed them by the constitution, and attempt to oppress and enslave the subjects, is a principle on which alone the great revolutions which have taken place in our nation can be justified.»

These powers are directly prescribed by the constitution.

It is merely doing its duty as prescribed by the Constitution,» Wabba said.

That the party allows him [Afoko] to discharge his duties fully as prescribed by the constitution

Not exact matches

While the APC Constitution, in Article 17 (1) and 13.2 (B), limits the tenure of elected officers to four years, renewable once by another election, the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), in section 223, also prescribes periodic elections for party executives at regular intervals, which must not exceed four years.

The actual wording of the change to article 1 section 9 of the state's constitution is to allow «casino gambling at no more than seven facilities as authorized and prescribed by the legislature».

Mr John Boadu, announcing the congress timetable, said, «Any applicant who would refuse to use all the internal party mechanisms to address any disputes as prescribed by Article 4 (6) of the party's constitution and rather goes to court to seek redress would automatically be barred from taking part in the impending elections.»

``... Accordingly, by this court's separate decision, order, and judgment, dated April 12, 2012, the petition has been denied, and this court has declared that the formula prescribed in article III, § 4 of the New York Constitution does not forbid New York from increasing the size of the New York State Senate to 63 seats in 2012.»

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

«Every Nigerian life matters and @ngrsenate will work to ensure that rule of law is always upheld as prescribed by the Nigerian Constitution.»

The Arizona State Legislature argued the process violates the Elections Clause of the Constitution, which states, «The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.»

FYI from Article V of the state constituion: Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, the heads of all... departments and the members of all boards and commissions, excepting temporary commissions for special purposes, shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate and may be removed by the governor, in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Filani said, «We passed a vote of no confidence in the state chairman, Mr. Bayo Dayo, and the state secretary, Alhaji Semiu Sodipo, and further suspended the duo respectively from the party with immediate effect — having formed the quorum of over one - third as prescribed by section 21 (5) of the party's constitution pending the time their cases will be determined by the appropriate organ of the party.»

Currently, a five - member committee presided over by Justice A.A Benin of the Supreme Court, is investigating the EC chair and her two deputies as prescribed under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution.

[6] The recall group's official recall statement says, «We find Russell Pearce's overt disdain for the United State's Constitution to be indicative of his inability to govern as prescribed by his job description and the oath he took to regain his seat in the state Senate.»

Ochala said, «If the House of Assembly do not find any area for which to indict and consequently impeach Ayade, we wish to point to them that the governor has consistently stayed out of the state for a period longer than what the constitution prescribes, without duly transmitting the reins of governance to his deputy as prescribed by the relevant statutes.

He said, «What I am saying is further reinforced by Section 80 (4) of the Constitution, which says that no money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other fund of the federation except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly.

Panelist Ross Weiner noted that the only content the standards prescribe is that all students read three foundational documents of American democracy — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address — by the time they graduate high school.

The standards are established in the Constitution of Virginia, defined in the Code of Virginia and prescribed by the state Board of Education, subject to revision only by the General Assembly.

(e) The Corresponding Secretary shall have charge of the correspondence, notify members of meetings, and carry out such other duties as are prescribed in these Constitution and By - Laws.

any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution.

While construing, inter alia, Paragraph 2 of Article 12 of the Constitution, wherein it is prescribed that with the exception of individual cases provided for by law, no one may be a citizen of both the Republic of Lithuania and another state at the same time, the Constitutional Court held the following in its ruling of 30 December 2003:

Specifically, California Constitution Article VI, § 6 (d), which provides the authority of the Judicial Council to promulgate the Rules of Court, states that the «council shall... adopt rules for court administration, practice and procedure, and perform other functions prescribed by statute.

«That the moment a Supreme Court is formed, it is to exercise all the judicial power vested in it by the Constitution, by its own authority, whether the legislature has prescribed methods of doing so, or not.»

That the Constitution, so far as it respects the judicial authority, can only be carried into effect by acts of the legislature appointing courts and prescribing their methods of proceeding.

This reformulation would explain why (as the Court held) a binding guidelines system violates the Constitution, but an advisory guidelines system does not: A binding guideline system (such as the prior federal sentencing system) would violate Apprendi because — and to the extent that — it allows the judiciary to increase the sentence beyond the maximum sentence established by the legislature or Commission, pursuant to facts the legislature or Commission has prescribed as important.

That on 6 May, 1776, the Colony of Virginia threw off its dependence on the Crown and government of Great Britain and declared itself an independent state and government with the limits prescribed and established by the letters patent of May 23, 1609, as curtailed and restricted by the letters patent establishing the Colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Carolina and by the Treaty of February 10, 1763, between Great Britain and France, which limits, so curtailed and restricted, the State of Virginia, by its Constitution and form of government, declared should be and remain the limits of the state and should bound its western and northwestern extent.

Use of the terms REALTOR ® and REALTORS ® by members shall, at all times, be subject to the provisions of the Constitution and Bylaws of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OR REALTORS ® and to the Rules and Regulations prescribed by its Board of Directors.