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 the constitution is amended, identical wording of the amendment must be approved by both the Sejm and the Senate.

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.

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 you were a man '' --

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.