Sentences with phrase «provisions of the new constitution»

Under the provisions of the new Constitution, upon taking office the senators were classified by drawing lots to terms of one, two, three or four years, as shown in the table below.

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Georgetown Law Professor Michael Seidman says in the New York Times that we should conclude, «the American system of government is broken» not because of political divisions, but because of the Constitution «with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.»

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

The state voted to accept the new Constitution, with its provision of religious liberty.

The Founding Fathers reached consensus that republicanism contains a provision to abolish and reform the government under new foundational laws, and is embodied in Article 4, section 4 of the Constitution.

This section of the Constitution is based on the provision contained within constitution of the state of New Constitution is based on the provision contained within constitution of the state of New constitution of the state of New York (1777).

He argues the creation of new regions will be «very difficult, nearly impossible» due to the absence of explicit provisions in the 1992 constitution, which state who qualifies to particpate in a referendum for such exercise.

The decision on whether to convene a convention will likely turn on two questions: (1) How New Yorkers feel about the state of their state; and (2) How concerned they are about provisions of the current constitution that could be put at risk if a convention is convened.

Deriving from all the above and to stop further slide of unconstitutionality, confusion and wide spread disenchantment of PDP members nationwide, it is hereby resolved that this summit shall set up a steering committee to manage the affairs of PDP and ultimately with our respected members of the BoT who have the conscience of the party until such a time that the proper lawfully organized National Convention of the party where a new authentic leadership of the party will be duly elected in accordance to the provision of our party constitution and guidelines.

The authors of the New York State Constitution included a provision that once every 20 years, the public would have the opportunity to completely overhaul and modernize the document.

The landlord of the building, Mushlam, Inc., filed suit in New York State Supreme Court Sept. 10, claiming the special provision was a violation of state and federal Constitutions, and should be struck down.

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1938, re-apportioned in 1953, 58 Senators and 150 assemblymen were elected in single - seat districts for two - year terms.

Bruno's lawyers argued unsuccessfully to Sharpe that a new trial constitutes a violation of the Constitution's double jeopardy provision, but Sharpe disagreed.

Castorina argues that the plaintiffs and others are «being denied their right to vote for a representative in the vacant 11th Congressional District in New York due to the failure of defendant to comply with mandatory provisions of Article I, Section II, Clause IV of the United States Constitution and the New York Public Officers Law Section 42 [3],» according to court documents.

In Attorney - General, Abia State v. Attorney - General of the Federation (2002) 1 WRN 1 at 45, Kutigi CJN (as he then was) held that «where the provision in the Act is within the legislative powers of the National Assembly but the constitution is found to have already made the same or similar provision, then the new provision will be regarded as invalid for duplication and / or inconsistency and therefore inoperative.

for all students in the eighth and higher grades, instruction in the history, meaning, significance and effect of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the amendments thereto, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of New York and the amendments thereto, as required by section 801 of the Education Law;

Education spending has still yet to recover from the Great Recession in many states.11 Because of state constitution balanced - budget provisions, when faced with significant federal funding cuts, states are forced to either further cut education programs or raise taxes.12 The idea of further raising taxes to backfill Trump's education funding cuts simply is not practical in states such as Maryland, 13 Illinois, 14 and New Jersey, 15 which are struggling to fund their current responsibilities.

32 The New Hampshire Supreme Court likewise rejected the standing of petitioners challenging the state's scholarship tax credit law, ruling that they could not demonstrate any harm.33 The following year, citing the decisions in Arizona and New Hampshire, the Alabama Supreme Court also held that a «tax credit to a parent or a corporation... can not be construed as an «appropriation»» but rather such funds retain their status as private funds until they enter the public treasury.34 That view seems to be the prevailing one in courts, so with the possible exception of Michigan, where the state constitution explicitly prohibits tax benefits for religious education, tax credits should survive scrutiny under such provisions.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

Yet a committee, drawing from the New Arts Space national conferences, including Joe Celli of Real Art Ways, Al Nodal of the Washington Project for the Arts, Lyn Blumenthal of the Video Data Bank, Robert Gaylor of Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, and Renny Pritikin of New Langton Arts, among others, met to draw up a constitution presented at a subsequent national conference in Washington, DC, which included the provision and also divided the country into seven regions, one of which was, notably, New York City by itself.

Interestingly, it's not clear what the appellate order means since the court of appeals agreed with the prosecution that «Mr. Stern's new trial motion could not be granted... [b] ut... what can occur to Mr. Stern once the remittur issues is limited by the double jeopardy provisions of our Constitutions.»

California, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York are the only states that do not have a provision in their state constitutions mirroring or significantly reflecting the provisions of the Second Amendment (although New York has a civil rights law containing something almost the same as the Second Amendment).

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Although MacFarlane is correct that the delivery of services must be done provincially under the constitution, any new provisions would still have to provide some direction on the absence of «true» consent.

Included in a new constitution should be a recall provision whereby anyone elected to office, be it President, CEO, Treasurer, Director, whatever, can be held accountable for implementing / supporting policy that does not reflect the will of the actual shareholders, being the dues paying members.

Among other provisions outlined in the constitution were the formation of standing committees on financing and auditing, taxation, state and municipal legislation, organization of new local boards, and a code of ethics.