Sentences with phrase «set by the constitution»

It's the job of the legislative branch, in either the states or the national government, to enact laws within the bounds set by the Constitution.

I would clarify, though, that most of the details of the working of the Supreme Court are not set by the Constitution — which establishes SCOTUS and broadly defines its role — but by federal statute.

«Election to Parliament is on a competitive basis with the participation of political parties and independent candidates who meet the requirements set by the Constitution and other relevant laws governing elections in the country,» he stated.

Not exact matches

«Every presidential action must still comply with the limits set by Congress» delegation of power and the constraints of the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.»

The PBO believes that Parliament is losing control over its fiduciary responsibilities, as set out in the Constitution, by approving legislation without knowing the full impact such legislation will have on the budgetary projections

The Supreme Court will rule on the extent of protections conferred by the state's constitution, with its findings potentially set to impact this summer's referendum on Ireland's restrictive abortion laws.

Properly speaking, a democratic constitution provides the one set of legal prescriptions that must be explicitly accepted by all citizens as participants in the political discourse, including discourse about whether the actual constitution is in fact democratic and, indeed, whether democracy itself is the proper form of the political association.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Such ends - justify - the - means logic is shortsighted; worse, it further undermines the framework set out by the Constitution.

Consequently, although four of the six chapters (3 - 6) that make up Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, concentrate on the Scriptures, the document begins (chapters 1 - 2) by setting the Bible in the context of God revealing Himself to man in the history of salvation, in Christ who is the fullness of Revelation, and in the life of the Church through which Revelation is transmitted.

If by the «primitive church» we mean the church of the first century and the first quarter, say, of the second — and such a period represents the approximate range of this chapter — we have at most only the New Testament documents and some of the Apostolic Fathers; and none of these documents is concerned to set forth in any full or systematic way the constitution of the church or the methods of its work.

My view is that a principled case can and should be advanced for the third of the options — that of a written constitution (a statement telling us in exemplary form only what we might have) being «a document of basic law by which the United Kingdom would be governed, setting out the relationship between the state and its citizens, an amendment procedure and elements of reform.»

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional RefoConstitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Refoconstitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).

EU leaders are today expected to formally set themselves a 2008 deadline to decide on what to do with the draft constitution rejected by the Dutch and French next year.

Having found this form in the Constitution, I had it set up on the typewriter, and the oath was administered by my father in his capacity as a notary public, an office he had held for a great many years.

[50] Amending the Massachusetts Constitution is a multi-year process that could not be accomplished before the date set by the SJC for the issuance of marriage licenses to same - sex couples.

According to the Presidential Committee on Emoluments which was set up by President John Mahama in accordance with the constitution of Ghana, all Article 71 office holders are to enjoy a 10 % increase in their monthly salary and must be retrospective to cover 2013.

In his suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 508/2017 and filed on June 28, Dawodu urged the court to declare Saraki as empowered by the Nigerian Constitution to set up a medical panel to determine Buhari's health status «without first being a resolution of the Executive Council of the Federation.»

He added, «If you recall, the NWC set up the constitution amendment committee headed by our National Legal Adviser, Muiz Banire, SAN.

Typically, a national leader, such as a President, that decides to stay in power by ignoring provisions in their own Constitution or by ignoring election laws tends to try to stay in power, and sets themselves up as a dictator.

Tony Blair is to meet with Polish leaders today for talks which are set to be dominated by the EU constitution.

Article IV, Section 4 of the Louisiana Constitution defines the method by which the agriculture commissioner's compensation is set:

He wanted the court to set aside the «State of Osun Local Government Areas Law, 2015» and «State of Osun Local Government Areas amendment (No. 1) Law, 2017» having been enacted by the legislative body that is not known to the constitution and for the state not known to the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

But in a statement issued on Thursday by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, Ekiti APC stressed that the governor can not hide under the constitution to abuse a special intervention scheme that specifically insisted on a set of rules for strict application of the funds for the purpose for which it was approved.

For that reason, the reform party I envisaged setting up was going to be required, by its own constitution, to dissolve itself once a set of specific reforms had been achieved.)

Set during the American Civil War in January 1865, Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) as he attempts to abolish slavery in the USA by passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives.

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Beginning by misstating spending increases (based on incorrect data and flawed adjustments) and ignoring pertinent performance data, he rewrites the constitution of every state to give judges the major policy - setting role in a «new, functional separation of powers mode.»

However, we should return to the fact that these arrangements were clearly set out in the trust's constitution and were signed off by the DfE.

A second suit brought by a coalition of taxpayer groups also challenged the program, claiming that the Nevada Constitution requires the legislature to set apart money to be used to fund the operation of public schools «to the exclusion of all other purposes.»

As required by the California Constitution, the proceeds from the sale of the bonds will be used only for the purposes authorized under Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, including acquisition or improvement of real property for school facilities, as more specifically set forth in this Bond Measure, and costs incident thereto.

The Michigan Constitution requires that governments set aside money to pay for pension benefits when they are earned by the employee.

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.»

In any special situations or circumstances where California state law and the Bloodhounds West Constitution and By - Laws are silent, parliamentary procedure as set forth in the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised shall be followed.

Likewise, it's certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and / or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and / or simply because they play the game better than you do.

I especially love this part: «It's certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and / or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and / or simply because they play the game better than you do.

Donated by the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, it is located next to the West Building at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., the garden provides an informal, yet elegant setting for works of modern and contemporary sculpture.

The appeal argues Massachusetts regulators exceeded their wholesale rate - setting authority, a violation of the Federal Power Act and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by usurping the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

It is deemed to be held together merely by a web of implied bipartite contracts between each member and every other member, and these contracts are deemed to incorporate the terms set out in the union's constitution.

Last but hardly least, the case could set the stage for a decision on an issue never squarely decided by the court — whether the Constitution forbids the execution of a defendant who can demonstrate «actual innocence.»

So the author is asking the Court of Justice of the EU to require the Italian courts to set aside M.A.S and M.B's human right to a fair trial, as guaranteed by the Italian Constitution, in order to pursue the policy goal of efficient tax collection, because, in the author's interpretation of global law, such efficient tax collection is also in the service of fundamental rights which Prof. Capaldo interprets as also present in the global legal order.

Frazer concluded that the proposed constitution did not meet the requirements set by Congress.

The Court of Cassation rejected that defence of state immunity, founded, as it appeared to be, on the two conventions referred to, stating that the jurisdiction of the Dubai Courts includes all disputes save for those of a special nature as set out in Article 102 of the UAE Constitution and laws, decrees, bye - laws regulations, orders and instructions issued by the Ruler or His duly appointed delegee.

The vast majority of states either place the membership directly into the constitution (24 states), as Georgia currently has, or the membership is set by the state's supreme court / court of last resort via court rule (10 states).

The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is set out in the Constitution with some degree of flexibility by which the Legislature may add or take away certain categories of cases.

Enforcing limits on the power of government, as judicial review does, and perhaps especially enforcing limits set up by federal constitutions, insofar as they circumscribe the powers of centralized governments, helps preserve foot - voting and market - choice opportunities.

Now, Constitute doesn't promise to update according to a schedule (they claim they're up - to - date as of September 2013), and though all the constitutions I've had a quick look at are set out in English, there's no indication of how or by whom they were translated from their original language, this is... [more]

Therefore, application of § 922 (g)(1) to him violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution under the framework set for the by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in United States v. Barton, 633 F. 3d 168 (3d Cir.

He says that it was helped by Vote Leave staff to set up its own constitution and bank account so that it could accept donations of its own.

Suffice to say that the preamble sets out the history preceding enactment, and that enactment of the Constitution was supported by «the people» of the colonies.