Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.

For example, most law students in the United States are required to take a class in Constitutional Law during their first year, and several law journals are devoted to the discussion of constitutional issues.

He also mastered a new set of issues regarding the commerce clause and, in a deliberately restrained manner, wrote constitutional decisions that expanded the regulatory powers of both the state and federal governments.

Hume's indeed was considered a Tory history, and emphasized religious differences more than constitutional issues.

The public role adopted by Sir John Kerr was curtailed considerably after the constitutional crisis of 1975 ; Sir William Deane's public statements on political issues produced some hostility towards him ; and some charities disassociated themselves from Peter Hollingworth after the issue of his management of sex abuse cases during his time as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane became a matter of controversy.

Collatinus was asked to resign over constitutional issues.

During 1995-96 the political parties negotiated constitutional amendments to address these issues.

Because of the canon of constitutional avoidance ( i. e., where a statute can fairly be interpreted so as to avoid a constitutional issue, it should be so interpreted ), courts generally deal with the constitutional issues only if necessary.

Thus, Peel affirmed a convention of the constitution that promotes stability in the British system: the Parliament of the day must respect the settlement of constitutional issues made by previous Parliaments.

" In the United States, political scientists known as " Americanists " look at a variety of data including constitutional development, elections, public opinion and public policy such as Social Security reform ,..... foreign policy, US Congressional committees, and the US Supreme Court — to name only a few issues.

Southern Cameroons scored a victory in a legal battle against the Republic of Cameroon when the African Commission for Human and Peoples ' Rights found that there were unresolved issues with the constitutional structure of the Republic of Cameroon vis-a-vis Southern Cameroons.

Sometimes, particularly potent issues are brought before an appeals court, such as a constitutional determination made by a lower court, or summary judgment granted by a lower court.

The Zanzibari court system parallels the legal system of the union, and all cases tried in Zanzibari courts, except for those involving constitutional issues and Islamic law, can be appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Union.

The Court, however, " resist the pulls to decide the constitutional issues involved in this case on a broader basis " and left the constitutionality of flag-burning unaddressed.

Reformers tabled constitutional amendments in 1828, 1829 and 1855, with the issues finally reaching a head during the 1890s and 1900s.

* Moana Jackson, ( BA LLB ) Māori lawyer specialising in Treaty of Waitangi and constitutional issues

** President of Peru Alberto Fujimori issues Decree Law 25418, dissolving the Congress of the Republic of Peru, imposing censorship and having opposition politicians arrested, setting off the 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis.

In other words, Hong Kong and Macau are outside of the legal jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, except on constitutional issues.

Garfield, aligned with the Radical Republicans on some issues, not only favored abolition, but early in his career believed that the leaders of the rebellion had forfeited their constitutional rights.

It split from the national Democrats over what was perceived as federal intervention in the segregation practices, laws and constitutions of the Southern states, which, among other issues, had largely disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites by constitutional amendments and electoral requirements from 1890 to 1910.

In the 1886 case Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific, the Supreme Court directed the lawyers that the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause guarantees constitutional protections to corporations in addition to natural persons, and the oral argument should focus on other issues in the case.

Government referendums are predominantly about alcohol policy ( although none has been held recently ) or constitutional issues.

Subject to certain constitutional restraints in favor of fair trials, each level of government is free to devise its own judicial procedures.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The martial law continued until 1962 when the government of Field Marshal Ayub Khan commissioned a constitutional bench under Chief Justice of Pakistan, Muhammad Shahabuddin, containing ten senior justices, each five from East Pakistan and five from West Pakistan.

The constitutional crisis of 1975 prominently raised the possibility of the Prime Minister and the Governor-General attempting to dismiss each other at the same time.

Under constitutional changes in 2004, the MPR became a bicameral legislature, with the creation of the Dewan Perwakilan Daerah ( DPD ), in which each province is represented by four members, although its legislative powers are more limited than those of the DPR.

It recommended for the inhabitants of each State to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that constitutional form of government.

: Subject to its constitutional principles and the basic concepts of its legal system, each Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the possession, purchase or cultivation of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for personal consumption contrary to the provisions of the 1961 Convention, the 1961 Convention as amended or the 1971 Convention.

( Of course, as sovereign nations, each is free to withdraw from the arrangement, using their respective process for constitutional amendment, and no longer be united through common allegiance to the Crown.

The types of tax imposed at each level of government vary, in part due to constitutional restrictions.

27 states had called for a constitutional convention on the subject, with 31 states needed to reach the threshold ; Arizona and New Mexico each achieved statehood that year ( bringing the total number of states to 48 ), and were expected to support the motion, while Alabama and Wyoming, already states, had passed resolutions in favor of a convention without formally calling for one.

State law regulates most aspects of electoral law, including primaries, the eligibility of voters ( beyond the basic constitutional definition ), the running of each state's electoral college, and the running of state and local elections.

The Feuillants wished to keep the constitutional monarchy as it was developed by the Assemblée, the latter two favored purging France of its royal past ( Ancien Régime ), each in their own way.

Per the Constitution Act, 1982, any constitutional amendment that affects the Crown, including the Office of the Governor General, requires the unanimous consent of each provincial legislature as well as the federal parliament.

In any case, the " suggestions " of Delacroix were politely rejected and the constitutional commission insisted on the following three essential points: universal manhood suffrage, without fiscal qualifications ; the right of revision of the constitution at quinquennial intervals by the voters ; and finally the rejection of the principle of a bicameral legislature, in which each House would have a separate electoral base.

" The ancient historical account here demonstrates a more sophisticated understanding of political process-what were two sides in Solon's account have now become three parties, each with a regional base and a constitutional platform.

* Perennialism, or the Traditionalist School, an esoteric movement inspired by the interwar period writings of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon ; opposing democracy, modernity, liberalism and the bourgeois constitutional state, the Perennialists propose an everlasting wisdom of divine origin transmitted from the very origin of humanity and partially restored by each genuine founder of a new religion.

Thus the history of English military law up to 1879 may be divided into three periods, each having a distinct constitutional aspect: ( I ) prior to 1689, the army, being regarded as so many personal retainers of the sovereign rather than servants of the state, was mainly governed by the will of the sovereign ; ( 2 ) between 1689 and 1803, the army, being recognized as a permanent force, was governed within the realm by statute and without it by the prerogative of the crown and ( 3 ) from 1803 to 1879, it was governed either directly by statute or by the sovereign under an authority derived from and defined and limited by statute.

The Mutiny Act had been brought into force on each occasion for one year only, in compliance with the constitutional theory:

In modern Canadian constitutional theory, the provinces are considered to be co-sovereign divisions, and each province has its own " Crown " represented by the lieutenant-governor, whereas the territories are not sovereign, but simply parts of the federal realm, and have a commissioner.

This came about due to the history of the Kirk ( Church of Scotland ) which saw a multitude of factions and congregations organise, each with varying forms of worship and constitutional arrangements, which subsequently re-integrated.

Here he expanded the European-American constitutional theory of a three-branch government and a system of checks and balances by incorporating traditional Chinese administrative tradition to create a government of five branches ( each of which is called a Yuan ( 院, yuàn, literally " court ").

The Revenue Act of 1913, imposing income taxes that are not apportioned among the states according to each state's population, is constitutional.

Its members are the AFL – CIO executive council, the chief executive officer of each member union, the president of each AFL – CIO constitutional department, and four regional representatives elected by the AFL – CIO's state federations.