Sentences with phrase «to write constitutions»
Sorry... they didn't write the constitution... they were simply elected to uphold it... get over it.
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When Catherine wrote the Constitution for our Apostolate, she placed at the beginning the law of love, for «the primary work of the Apostolate is that we love one another... This is the greatest work of the Apostolate.
Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention's sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the often painful process of writing the Constitution.
Actually, it's the Constitution State officially because a historian named John Fiske claimed that the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were the first written constitution in the western tradition.
E.g. # 1 is true of many countries with written constitutions.
Americans are typically distrustful of their government as a whole, and the people who wrote the Constitution definitely numbered in this crowd (many being the folks who rebelled against British rule).
Then of course I remembered that many human rights zealots mirror this attitude — paying lip - service to HRA's respect for primary legislation, but using arguments that betray a hankering for written constitutions which embed those rights to be protected by judges against upstart parliaments.
Actually, it's the Constitution State officially because a historian named John Fiske claimed that the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were the first written constitution in the western tradition.
We must seek discernment for how to live here on earth — not through the stereotypes of «heavenly minded and of no earthly use» Christians or «zealot Shi'ite» Muslims who only wreak havoc — but by becoming catalysts for governments that write constitutions such as that of South Africa and catalysts for public repentance, vowing never to harm another human being, as with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
I'm not aware of a single country outside the 5 below that don't have a codified written constitution and are considered democratic: Of course, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as...
I now think there is both a strategic / pragmatic case for AV, but also (in the right broader reform package) a good argument for it being good to have a pluralist majoritarian system for the Commons, within an entrenched written constitution and with a PR - elected second chamber.
For the Liberal Democrats, the purpose of the convention is to draw up a «full written constitution for the UK».
«I'm glad the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution they way they did,» Maloney said.
«Similarly, the founders of the United States wrote the constitution and established a system of law to govern Americans.
Old enough that some guy named Alexander Hamilton wrote its Constitution, just months after British forces left U.S. soil.
Like a dinosaur with its head removed, the doctrine will no doubt continue to stumble on, but it is high time it was put out of its misery in favour of a codified and justiciable written constitution.»
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and permanent law of the nation.
Recently the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee ran an open public competition to find who can write the best Preamble — or introductory statement — for a modern Written Constitution for the UK.
A British «constitutional convention» would presumably adopt (or suggest to a national referendum the adoption of) a truly written constitution specifying the ways that a clearly «federalized» country will operate in the future.
For better or worse, Great Britain has often preferred to «muddle through» quite remarkable changes in its governing structure without the full - scale reconsideration of some of its own foundational presuppositions, the most important one of which, of course, is the sovereignty of the singular Westminster Parliament and the ability to maintain the proposition that the United Kingdom has no need for a canonical written constitution.
The terms written constitution and codified constitution are often used interchangeably, as are unwritten constitution and uncodified constitution, although this usage is technically inaccurate.
While the initial draft required that any changes be made by amendments, some participants at the convention that wrote this constitution argued that legislators should be free to determine their own pay and submitted new language that would allow this.
Each US state has it's own written constitution and history of populism.
That's not a very attractive idea, especially to the people who get to write constitutions so I would be very surprised if it did exist anywhere.
openDemocracy's founder explains why Britain must go for a fully written constitution, and why a constitutional convention is necessary to achieve that.
If we could write the constitution all over again we should give ALL education power to the feds and the school boards and cut the states out totally.
By December, 1998, all Club members participated in a ballot to ratify the newly written Constitution, Bylaws, Code of Ethics, and Breed Standard of the SVCA.
The Group's written constitution requires it «to advance public awareness of contemporary visual art by holding exhibitions annually.»
When the founders wrote the constitution of the United States of America, the first amendment stated that «Congress shall make no law... abridging... the right of the people peaceably to assemble.»
-- The U.S. Constitution is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
Ben Carson doesn't know much about who actually wrote the Constitution.
The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing 444 articles in 22 parts, 12 schedules, 118 amendments, and comprised of 146,385 words.
«I mean, the country wrote a constitution in less time than this.»
Last week saw the launch of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee's The UK Constitution — a pocket - sized, written constitution for the UK.
Much like Paul, he was a strict constitutionalist, and believed that «devious government intervention in the economic affairs of the nation... [were] not contemplated by the men who wrote the constitution.»
I'm not aware of a single country outside the 5 below that don't have a codified written constitution and are considered democratic:
It should not be asked to devise a full written constitution: that would open up too many controversies and would only raise the barriers to successful implementation of the key changes that are needed.
State - by - state winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
Chancellor Gordon Brown, who will become prime minister in days, suggested in May that Britain could get its first written constitution, saying: «We need a constitution that is clear about the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen in Britain today.»
The Founding Fathers clearly worked through trial and error in writing the Constitution, informed by firm ideals as to what should and must work.
Politics is more akin to a mirror than a comb, and the unwritten constitution of hearts and minds constrains the interpretive boundaries of the written Constitution.