Sentences with phrase «representative system of government»

It is not preferred when you contrast it with representative systems of government such as a Parliament or Congress, as in the United States.

Not exact matches

(for example: most of them believe in the American representative democracy system, a form of government not found anywhere in the Bible) Do YOU read other books than the Bible?

It is important to note the political basis of an economic system as one of our basic dichotomies because there is a very real difference in the foundation of a capitalism in which the rules governing the system are determined by a few — rules concerning wages, monopolies, taxation, use of natural resources, government benefits, etc. — and one in which these rules are determined by representatives who are chosen by the general populace.

The formulation and expression of moral truths as positive law is, in our system of government, a system based on consent, a task confided to the people and their elected representatives.

The democracy they devised was a republican system of limited government, with checks and balances, including judicial review, and representative means for the expression of the voice of the people.

The new project focuses on the broader dissemination of knowledge and is build around an intensive training course for agents of the agriculture knowledge dissemination system (e.g. technical advisors, farm managers, government representatives etc.) Materials and teaching methodology will be developed and passed on to the trainees as part of the course and a first round of replication will be carried out and technically supported in the framework of the project.

Democracy - a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

A straight forward solution to the problems that you highlight would be to change the US government from having a nearly directly elected president to a single chamber parliamentary system based on the House of Representatives.

Representative democracy is a fundamental component of the American system of government.

The recently deceased Denis Healey once argued, «No Socialist Party with the prospect of forming a government could accept a system by which important fields of national policy were surrendered to a supranational European representative authority».

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

And, he added, our current electoral system is really about choosing a government, not representatives of the people.

We are very appreciative of the numerous representatives of County, City, Town and Village governments and trustees of individual libraries that have approached the B&ECPL Board to consider creative and collaborative alternatives for the Library System, stated Pordum.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspiciSystem which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicisystem but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

Participation should extend from the various branches of member state governments, under the leadership of the respective Head of State or Government, to the Bretton Woods Institutions, other IFIs and UN system agencies, representatives of the private sector, civil society and science.

(A representative clause, borrowed from the Arkansas Constitution, reads, «Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the State shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free public schools and shall adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.»)

Representative John Kline, the Minnesota Republican who is chairman of the House Education Committee, said the existing law had left the federal government «micromanaging» the education system.

Last weekLastLast week the US House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation that would update the federal government's technology and systems.

The Court declared that the applicant has indeed been denied equal access to government information and services and that the situation «is representative of a system wide failure by many -LSB-...] government departments and agencies to make their websites accessible».

Justice Kelen declared that Ms Jodhan's inability to access certain government websites is representative of a system wide failure by government departments and agencies to make their websites accessible, and that the government's failure to monitor and ensure compliance with its own accessibility standards violates the equality guarantee in the Charter.

And as Larry Ribstein has repeatedly pointed out, it doesn't say much for our criminal justice system that the government is paying witnesses to testify against Lerach for the crime of paying his class representative clients.

As the will and purpose of the people change, our system of government assumes that the representatives of the people will adjust the laws governing the people accordingly.

A body corporate, without share capital, operating for the benefit of its members and not for profit, with a representative form of government including a lodge system, and that is incorporated for fraternal, benevolent, or religious purposes, including the provision of insurance or annuity benefits to its members, their spouses, children or beneficiaries.

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In preparing this paper, the new Australian Government has made clear that it does not support a new National Indigenous Representative Body having responsibilities for delivering government services and will continue to deliver services through a coordinated whole of governmeGovernment has made clear that it does not support a new National Indigenous Representative Body having responsibilities for delivering government services and will continue to deliver services through a coordinated whole of governmegovernment services and will continue to deliver services through a coordinated whole of governmentgovernment system.

At the same time, of those institutions in the native title system dependent on government funding, only representative bodies have the substantive protection of native title interests as their primary function.

Implementing capacity development through the processes available within the native title system requires a significant change of approach, not just by government but also by traditional owners individually and within their group and their representatives.

Establish systems of planning, service delivery, and monitoring and evaluation at the Territory - wide and community level that are based on partnerships between the two Governments and Aboriginal community representatives and services.

Minister Brough «s former example describes a system of autocracy managed by government; the latter is a system of autonomy managed by the Indigenous owners or their representatives.

Lisa maintains strong networks within the native title system, conducting research projects in partnership with, or in response to, the needs of native title representative bodies and claimants as well as government departments.

17 The Western Australian Government has queried the logic behind the Commonwealth's system of requiring organisations to be established to hold and manage decided native title interests, but not providing any funding for these organisations: A De Soyza, Proof Committee Hansard, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry and Resources, 30 October 2002, pp157 & 167.

As part of its changes to the native title system, the previous government announced changes to representative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bodies that deal with native title, and prescribed bodies corporate.