The ACT has internal self-government, but Australia's Constitution does not afford the territory government the full legislative independence provided to Australian states.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

The Constitution does not set a term of office, so a Governor-General may continue to hold office for any agreed length of time, however a typical term of office is five years.

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

The Italian Constitution does not recognize the right to keep and bear arms, however different types of gun licenses can be obtained from the national police authorities.

In that same ruling, the Court noted " We have never held that the Constitution mandates an insanity defense, nor have we held that the Constitution does not so require.

Lynch does not support an amendment to the State Constitution banning an income tax.

* Does Article III of the Constitution create a " floor " for original jurisdiction, which Congress can add to, or does it create an exhaustive list that Congress can't modify at all?

The 1954 PRC Constitution provides that the State Chairman ( President ) directs the armed forces and made the State Chairman the chair of the Defense Commission ( the Defense Commission is an advisory body, it does not lead the armed forces ).

However, it does not have the sovereignty that a state of the Union has, given that Puerto Rico is a possession of the United States and it is, thus, not protected by the US Constitution as states are.

The United States Constitution mentions the resignation of the president but does not regulate the form of such a resignation or the conditions for its validity.

In a 1982 judgment delivered under such a referral, Chief Justice Tom O ' Higgins bemoaned the crude strictures of the prescribed process ; especially the fact that, if the court finds that a bill does not violate the Constitution, this judgment can never subsequently be challenged.

The Constitution of Western Australia does not explicitly provide for a premier, and the office was not formally listed as one of the executive offices until the appointment of Ross McLarty in 1947.

The term republic does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, but does appear in Article IV of the Constitution which " guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government.

As the political scientist Jorri Duursma notes, " San Marino does not have an official Constitution as such.

Defamation does not affect or hinder the voicing of opinions, but does occupy the same fields as rights to free speech in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

The Constitution does not directly guarantee the franchise to anyone ; rather, it provides that those qualified to vote in elections for the largest chamber of a state's legislature may vote in congressional elections as well.

The Constitution does not fix the size of the House of Representatives ; instead, this clause empowers Congress to determine the size of the House as part of the apportionment process, so long as the size of the House does not exceed 1 member for every 30, 000 of the country's total population and the size of the state's delegation does not exceed 1 for every 30, 000 of the state's population ( although these limits have not been approached since the Founding ).

Though the Constitution does not mandate it, every Speaker has been a member of the House of Representatives.

As is true of the Speaker of the House, the Constitution does not require that the President pro tempore be a senator, but by convention, a senator is always chosen ; since World War II, the senior member of the majority party has filled this position.

The responsibilities and authority of the center and the provinces were clearly listed in the Constitution.

Three independent organizations with clearly defined responsibilities are found in the Political Constitution.

Her Majesty, as Queen of Australia, is watching events in Canberra with close interest and attention, but it would not be proper for her to intervene in person in matters which are so clearly placed within the jurisdiction of the Governor-General by the Constitution Act.

On the day of the election, the draft Free State Constitution was published and rejected by the Anti-Treatyites as it was clearly not a republican document.

Known as the " Hollywood Ten ", they claimed that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly gave them the right to do this.

The president can refuse to sign laws he deems clearly against the Constitution, while less obvious cases are dealt with later on by the Constitutional Court.

Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Hughes observed the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution clearly forbade the states from excluding citizens from juries due solely to their race.

The Constitution of the Irish Free State adopted in December 1922 clearly envisaged the early establishment of new courts for the nascent state and the abolition of the position of the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.

The Constitution clearly defined the responsibilities for making and implementing policy held by each branch of government In reality, however, all decisions of state were made by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

However, in 2010, the XVII Amendment was reversed and is replaced with more effective XVIII Amendment to the Constitution, clearly turning Pakistan from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary democratic republic.

The right to free legal services is, therefore, clearly an essential ingredient of ' reasonable, fair and just, procedure for a person accused of an offence and it must be held implicit in the guarantee of Article 21 of the Constitution.

The 1947 Constitution, drawn without Karen participation due to their boycott of the elections to the Constituent Assembly, also failed to address the Karen question specifically and clearly, leaving it to be discussed only after independence.

On January 28, 2011 the Constitutional Court of France decided that the illegality of same-sex marriages was not contrary to the Constitution, clearly stating that this was a question for Parliament to decide.

But there are two clauses in the Constitution which point directly and specifically to the negro race as a separate class of persons, and show clearly that they were not regarded as a portion of the people or citizens of the Government then formed.

Despite the fact that article 32 of the Constitution of Iran states the defendant must be properly arraigned and the charges against him must be conveyed clearly and in writing, the SCC, the SCC frequently violates this principle.

Blackstone — and the Framers who were formed by Blackstone — would clearly have regarded that change in law as a matter for the legislature, beyond the power of the court .... That explains why the Constitution restricted only the legislature from enacting ex post facto laws.

Although completely foreign to both British and Australian colonial experience, the framers of the Australian Constitution clearly intended that the practice would take hold in Australia, and even expressly adverted to it in the Constitutional text ( in section 76 ).

The Canadian Constitution does not clearly specify the level of government that has responsibility for environmental protection in Canada.

When Freeman and Chase founded Theta Chi in 1856 they very clearly spelled out the purpose of the Fraternity in the original Constitution.

The Maryland Constitution clearly states that " the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of Government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other ; and no person exercising the functions of one of said Departments shall assume or discharge the duties of any other.

Tymoshenko does not want to expand the lease contract of the Russian Black Sea fleet in Ukraine because " The Constitution of Ukraine quite clearly stipulates that foreign military bases cannot be deployed in Ukraine, and this constitutional clause is the fundamental basis of the state's security ".

This assimilative campaign can be clearly seen by the fact that in 1990 the amended Constitution redefined the state from " a state of the Macedonian people and the Albanian and Turkish nationalities " to a " national state of the Macedonian people " ( Poulton, 1995: 122 ).

It was clearly determined that the pith and substance of the law was federal as it concerned marriage which is in the absolute federal jurisdiction under section 91 ( 26 ) of the Constitution Act, 1867.

Henry Jaffa argued that neither state nor national sovereignty was clearly established in the Constitution but no American president has in fact operated on the assumption that state power was preeminent, giving the Constitution a nationalist orientation.