Sentences with phrase «term constitutional reform»

Or come up with a long - term constitutional reform.

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ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has unveiled constitutional reform proposals that would make consultations by referendum easier, strengthen the largely ceremonial presidency somewhat and limit lawmakers» consecutive terms to 8...

Although certain elements in the constitutional reform movement criticise corporate power in general terms, no one has reduced the ideas floating about to the frame of a concrete settlement, or integrated it into any concrete agenda.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

It is notable that the most important issue of the moment - economic stability - features lowest in the ranking of contested bills, while the most irrelevant issue in terms of voters» priorities, constitutional reform, is expected to be the most heavily fought - over.

Since you mentioned Nicholas Soames, his grandfather, Winston Churchill, was very much in favour of House of Lords reform, thought it should be elected by the people, and wanted to have long constitutional terms.

The mailer in the Nassau County Senate district touts Cronin's proposals, including term limits for state lawmakers, campaign finance reform measures such as closing the LLC loophole, boosting penalties for corruption and support for stripping public officials of their pensions if they are convicted of corruption — the latter of which is now up for second passage in the Legislature next year as a constitutional amendment.

Issues like the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, and ethics reform such as the constitutional amendment the governor first proposed in December for term limits and limiting outside income for state officials, lack the «political will,» he said.

In legislative terms, constitutional reform is necessary but very far from suffi cient to stem the decline in Labour support.

Wayne David, shadow constitutional affairs minister, said: «We are in favour of Lords reform, but the government plans do not set out a stable, coherent long - term relationship between the two houses.

The Coalition Agreement committed the present government to four major pieces of constitutional and electoral reform: a referendum on the AV voting system, the equalisation of constituency sizes, an elected House of Lords and five - year fixed - term Parliaments.

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

The plan was announced by leader of the House Sir George Young, who argued that the change in timetable better suits five - year fixed - term parliaments - part of the government's constitutional reform programme.

The Fixed Term Parliament Act aside, planned constitutional reform has fallen well short of expectations since 2010 as House of Lords reform, «equalising» boundaries, reducing the number of MPs and the Alternative Vote have all fallen by the wayside.

Given the concessions on electoral reform and fixed term parliaments that the Conservatives were forced to make as part of the Coalition Government, they are unlikely to allow themselves to be pushed into other constitutional reforms in the immediate future.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

Arguing that constitutional reform is vital to restoring trust in politics, Brown says: «You might have thought that after three terms of a Labour government, we would be cautious about further reform.

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers» constitutional reforms have been criticised from the start, as the Fixed Term Parliament Act deliberately linked the establishment of a five - year electoral cycle with the mechanics setting up the 2011 electoral reform referendum.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, chaired by Labour MP Graham Allen has complained that it has been given inadequate time to scrutinise the legislation that will fix parliamentary terms, cut the number of MPs to 600 and enable a nationwide referendum on the voting system.

Both pieces cite the 2014 Senate Reform Reference, in which the Supreme Court held that Parliament could not impose consultative elections or term limits of senators as this would require a constitutional amendment and the consent of at least seven provinces representing at least fifty - percent of the population.

According to the July 2007 report of the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee (now called the Justice Committee), in terms of this combination of legal administration / advice and political duties: «Recent events [eg the Constitutional Reform Act 2005] have called into question the sustainability of this divided set of responsibilities.»

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