If, therefore, the legislature pass any laws, inconsistent with the sense the judges put upon the constitution, they will declare it void.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

If there is an issue where the court does not have the constitution as a guide, there are no legal criteria to use.

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Humphry Davy, an English chemist was among the first to expound on the chemical basis of soil fertility and wrote in 1813: “ If land be unproductive, and a system of ameliorating it is to be attempted, the sure method of obtaining the object is to determine the cause of the sterility, which must necessarily depend upon some defect in the constitution of the soil, which may be easily discovered by chemical analysis .” His ideas were not immediately accepted.

The Duke of Wellington lamented: " If such projects can be carried into execution by a minister of the Crown with impunity, there is no doubt that the constitution of this House, and of this country, is at an end.

If a federal or provincial law has been held contrary to the division of power provisions of one of the various constitution acts, the legislature or parliament must either live with the result, amend the law so that it complies, or obtain an amendment to the constitution.

:" If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations and among the several states is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the Constitution of the United States.

If the enactment of the constitution were considered to be illegal in this way, it could be considered an act of peaceful revolution.

If the necessary number of supporters is reached, the initiative will be put to a referendum about two or three years later ; the delay helps prevent short-term political moods from getting into the constitution.

Ohio petitions to gain statehood, and the northern boundary is set by the Ohio constitution as the Ordinance Line of 1787 with one proviso: If the line intersected Lake Erie to the east of the mouth of the Maumee River, then " with the assent of Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extended to a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

If all lines designated by law become extinct, the constitution reserves the right for the Cortes Generales to provide for the succession " in the manner most suitable for Spain ".

If the dispute arises because some aspect of the constitution is ambiguous or unclear, the ultimate resolution of the crisis often establishes a precedent for the future.

If only the checks could be made more effective, if only a just balance of power could be established beyond the strength of the politicians to disarrange ... the constitution would work perfectly.

If such a country decides to implement a constitution, presumably some sort of constituent assembly will have to be set up for the purpose.

* If the people come to believe that the constitution is not a text like other texts ; if it means, not what it says or what it was understood to mean, but what it should mean, in light of the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society, they will look for qualifications other than impartiality, judgment, and lawyerly acumen in those whom they elect to interpret it.

If the courts are free to write the constitution anew, they will write it the way the majority wants ; the appointment and confirmation process will see to that.

If such an interpretation is not possible because of inconsistency, and where a separation is possible, the provision that is inconsistent with constitution is considered to be void.

“ If the constitution of a state is democratic, then every exceptional negation of democratic principles, every exercise of state power independent of the approval of the majority, can be called dictatorship .”

If the text complied with the principles, it would become the new constitution ; if it did not, it would be referred back to the Constitutional Assembly.

If a change be necessary in our present constitution, it is to be undertaken in view of such a conjuncture as I have just mentioned.

If the constitution were to be rejected or if the National Assembly failed to come to agreement, the National Assembly was to be dissolved and new elections were to be held.

The GPO constitution requires that a leadership review be held bi-annually ; If more than one-third of voting members had opted for a review, a leadership race would have been held in 2006.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.

If Tom crosses out that clause and writes "$ 7, 000 to Alice Johnson " in the margin, but does not sign or date the writing in the margin, most states would find that Tom had revoked the earlier provision, but had not effectively amended his will to add the second ; however, under DRR the revocation would be undone because Tom was acting under the mistaken belief that he could increase the gift to $ 7, 000 by writing that in the margin.

If the 1933 Banking Act had not been amended, it would have required all federally insured banks to become members of the Federal Reserve System.

If the Lagting amended the Odelsting's decision, the bill would be sent back to the Odelsting.

If the demurrer is granted without prejudice, sometimes termed " leave to amend ", the plaintiff may correct errors filing a corrected, amended complaint.

If a bill is amended at this stage, it may be referred back for another committee hearing.

If a measure is amended in the second house and passed, it is returned to the house of origin for consideration of amendments.

If a measure is amended in the second house and passed, it is returned to the house of origin for consideration of amendments.

If Iðavöllr is amended to * Iðavöllr, the location name corresponds precisely to Idisiaviso.

If the Government declare that the State has become obliged, pursuant to the Agreement, to give effect to the amendment of this Constitution referred to therein, then, notwithstanding Article 46 hereof, this Constitution shall be amended as follows:

If approved with amendments, it is passed back to the originating House, which can approve the bill as amended, in which case the law is promulgated, or reject it.

If more than one sheet was required for a county, the county name would be amended on secondary sheets to indicate the order the sheets were in.

If a script was amended, a Crawford Productions staff member who lived near the actor concerned, would be required to deliver the new script to their house.