Sentences with phrase «secession rights»

But it would be appropriate for the state to set conditions on the secession right that serve to protect the remainder of the state's territories and the political community of the state as a whole.

Making the independence vote a rare and decisive event makes it less likely that the secession right will have the destabilising consequences identified by Sunstein.

Not exact matches

Funny you should say that since the Tea Billies have accused progressives, Democrats and the President of being exactly that «traitors» and right wing governors have talked about secession which the last time I checked is an act of treason and one for which Americans had a civil war over!

There are problems with constitutionalising a right to secession.

Coupled with the conferral of this new power on the Scottish Parliament should come limitations on its exercise, to mitigate — if not cure — the problems that the right to secession brings.

Having accorded a region the right to secede it would be wrong for the state, through the constitution, to limit the right in ways that make secession effectively impossible.

Sunstein's prescription — a denial of the right to secession — is not open to the United Kingdom, which has already recognised the right of certain of its territories to leave the Union.

Kalu affirmed that the right of the Igbo had been embedded in the United Nation's charter, which gave them the full right to ask for secession if they were no longer comfortable in living together as one country called Nigeria.

A Yes vote in next month's referendum would greatly accelerate the secession of the already existing, and rapidly growing, right - wing party nominally still comprised of Conservative backbenchers.

I simply expressed my opinion on my inalienable right to be consulted before serious decisions, such as secession of my space from Nigeria, are taken

The Risks of Secession «One inventor hesitates to apply for a patent until our political difficulties are settled; because, should the Southern states secede from the Northern and middle states, his rights would not be respected in but about half the States, and thus his patent would be worth only half price.

Jim Crow was a localized form of state - sponsored oppression that was, at the time illegal based on federal law but allowed to continue by apathetic and politically expedient federal authorities under the guise of furthering a doctrine of «states rights»; the same euphemism for slavery the southern plantation owning oligarchs used to rationalize secession and trick the poor white southerners to fight a war and die in the millions.

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The German artist experimented with a series of work on glass that layered geometric shapes in secession creating a 3 dimensional painting 2 dimensional when viewed at the right angle.

I disagree with him about the notwithstanding clause — hardly ever used outside Quebec, and I don't think that's a problem; about property rights — an open invitation to fight every kind of government action on the basis that one's property (i.e. right to do whatever one wants without regard to others) has been infringed (the US took over 100 years to fight that one out, and the right to govern is back under attack there); and about secession — in fact the SCC managed to give a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution (not the Charter in particular) on that point.

The above arguments are based upon the constitutional law doctrine of «structural argumentation» (see: Robin M. Elliott, «References, Structural Argumentation and the Organizing Principles of Canada's Constitution» (2000), 80 Canadian Bar Review 67, and decisions such as the, Reference Re Manitoba Language Rights, [1985] 1 S.C.R. 721, [1985] S.C.J. No. 36, the, Reference Re Secession of Québec, [1999] S.C.J. No. 4, [1998] 2 SCR 217, and the, Reference re Remuneration of Judges, [1997] S.C.J. No. 75, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 3, to argue that the need for access to the rule of law, and to constitutional rights and freedoms, dictate that law societies in Canada can not enforce a monopoly over the provision of legal services that enables their members to charge fees of whatever size they seRights, [1985] 1 S.C.R. 721, [1985] S.C.J. No. 36, the, Reference Re Secession of Québec, [1999] S.C.J. No. 4, [1998] 2 SCR 217, and the, Reference re Remuneration of Judges, [1997] S.C.J. No. 75, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 3, to argue that the need for access to the rule of law, and to constitutional rights and freedoms, dictate that law societies in Canada can not enforce a monopoly over the provision of legal services that enables their members to charge fees of whatever size they serights and freedoms, dictate that law societies in Canada can not enforce a monopoly over the provision of legal services that enables their members to charge fees of whatever size they see fit.

Self - determination is viewed as a threat to national unity that, if realized, could lead to the establishment of «separate rights» or in the extreme view, in the secession of Indigenous people from Australia.

As Erica - Irene Daes states, contrary to fears of secession, the right of self - determination is the «right to demand full democratic partnership» in society, and consequently: