Sentences with word «ratifiers»

Five states are recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty as nuclear weapon states (NWS): China (signed 1992), France (1992), the Soviet Union (1968; obligations and rights now assumed by the Russian Federation), the United Kingdom (1968), and the United States (1968)(The United States, UK, and the Soviet Union were the only states openly possessing such weapons among the original ratifiers of the treaty, which entered into force in 1970).

The framers and ratifiers intended it to be a permanent text, establishing fundamental and immutable principles for republican government.

The first reason merely requires the judge to discern what the framers arid ratifiers meant, not to make up new rights the judge regards as «natural.»

The move early this month by the world's two top emitters, China and the United States, to join the deal brought the total to 27 ratifiers covering nearly 40 percent of the world's emissions.

Within the next couple of years, Turkey, a recent ratifier of the Kyoto Protocol, will be required to reduce greenhouse gases under the next phase of the agreement, an obligation that will create opportunities for renewable - energy entrepreneurs.

First, «the framers and ratifiers of the Bill of Rights intended at least some of the amendments to secure natural rights.»

And the ratifiers felt strongly enough to include the first amendment.

Moral reasoning can make judges aware of complexities and of the likenesses and dissimilarities of situations, all of which is essential in applying the ratifiers» principles to new situations....

The only reason the Constitution exists, and hence that judges have any power to void democratic choices, is that the ratifiers could agree upon certain principles.

Had the ratifiers known what a natural law judge might do to their Constitution, the principles would not have been adopted to begin with.

Despite many scholarly efforts aimed at demonstrating that the Founders did not believe what they insisted that they did believe, it is manifest beyond doubt that the signers and ratifiers of the Constitution subscribed to a Puritan - Lockean synthesis that emphatically included a strong concept of natural law.

The recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the states for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding of the framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative in Congress exists under the Constitution.

Then on May 3, 2007, Maria Neira, director of the WHO's public - health and environment department, said at a Dakar, Senegal, meeting of the ratifiers of the Stockholm Convention — an international treaty that went into effect in 2004 that controls the use of persistent organic pollutants like DDT — that the WHO's goal was to reduce the use of DDT and eventually eliminate it.

So far the ratifiers only rack up a smidgen over 29 per cent.