Sentences with phrase «views on constitutional law»

John, I will not presume to comment about members of the bench and their views on constitutional law.

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Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

Scalia believed his job in education cases was to read and apply the text of the law, and not allow his personal views on education to come in through the backdoor via free - ranging interpretations of vague statutory and constitutional provisions.

In my view, this saga illustrates a positive side to the «conditional» acceptance of EU law primacy by national constitutional courts as the latter provide checks and balances on the ECJ's enormous judicial power.

This could be argued to endorse the view expressed by the author on this blog in November that the «constitutional requirements» clause in Article 50 (1) functions as the bridge between the domestic legal order and the Union legal order, and thus the giving and potential revocation of notice under Article 50 (2) is purely a matter of domestic law.

And, I suppose there's some reason to consider there's some basis for believing the fact that the Ontario Court of Appeal and the British Columbia Court of Appeal seem to have different views on the law regarding causation could be some basis for believing there's something about the law regarding causation that's a wee bit controversial (even accepting that the division of powers structure in the Constitution Act means that that conflict IS constitutional).

The Italian constitutional Court has upheld national rules which had been judged by the ECHR as contrary to the Convention, arguing that such rules nevertheless protected a different constitutional principle of the national constitution and the convention could not modify the constitution, beng it a lower rank act - so from a theoretical point of view the CJEU adopts the same approach: the ultimate decision on whether a EU act is in compliance with EU law must be taken within EU only (to make a parallel, think of the CJEU approach for WTO decisions: despite an action being contrary to WTO as decided by the appellate body, nonetheless individuals can use such illegality as a ground to void the action within the EU system)

«Constitutional democracy means that institutions have different jobs to do and Parliament has its job to do, which is a very important job — to put before Parliament and vote on laws in accordance with the views of the government of the day and their representatives.