The United States government does not believe that the final version of the Protocol is consistent with the United States ' First Amendment Constitutional rights and has informed the Council of Europe that the United States will not become a Party to the protocol.

Decisions of the Constitutional Court are final so the ruling stopped the referendum and opened to the Congress the opportunity to continue discussing the bill on the recognition of homosexual unions.

It usually consists of a court of final appeal ( called the " Supreme court " or " Constitutional court "), together with lower courts.

The bi-partisan recommendations of committee supported educational initiatives and holding a series of plebiscites to allow the public to choose which model they preferred, prior to a final draft and referendum, along the lines of plebiscites proposed by John Howard at the 1998 Constitutional Convention.

According to Baher Asmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, " ll three plaintiffs that are journalists with Democracy Now reached a final settlement with the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the United States Secret Service, that will resolve the claims that they had against them from unlawful and quite violent arrests.

However, after a sequence of appeals and lawsuits which eventually led to Yugoslav Constitutional Court, the original final table of 1985 – 86 season, with Partizan as champions, was officially recognized in mid 1987.

The Constitutional Assembly consisted of both houses sitting together, and was responsible for drawing up a final constitution within two years.

He opposed secession and, in his final address to the General Assembly, he stated, " It is therefore clear, that there is no Constitutional right of secession.

Le Chapelier, in his capacity as chairman of the Constitutional Committee, presented to the National Assembly in its final sessions a law restricting the rights of popular societies to undertake concerted political action, including the right to correspond with one another.

In this most senior judicial post, Lord Woolf spoke out at the University of Cambridge in 2004 against the Constitutional Reform Bill that would create a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to replace the House of Lords as the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom ; and he severely questioned the Lord Chancellor's and the Government's handling of recent constitutional reforms.

The proposed Constitutional change with which Bayh was most closely associated in his final years in the Senate was his attempt to eliminate the Electoral College ( the method of electing the President of the United States ) and replace it with a popular vote in the 1960s and 70s.

Along with evidence of the understandings of the men who debated and drafted the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, the courts are also interested in the way that government officials have put into practice the Constitution's provisions, particularly early government officials, although the courts reserve to themselves the final authority to determine the Constitution's meaning.

Although Congress placed a number of conditions on Allende such as his signature of a Statute of Constitutional Guarantees, promising not to undermine the Chilean Constitution, Alessandri lost the final vote by a decisive 153-35, with Tomic's Christian Democrats supporting Allende.

Venustiano Carranza declared himself opposed to the final redaction of Articles 3, 5, 24, 27, 123 and 130, but the Constitutional Congress contained only 85 conservatives and centrists close to Carranza's rather restrictive brand of ' liberalism '; against them were 132 more radical delegates.

Constitutional congressman Bernardo Cabral wrote the final draft of the Constitution.

The final interpretation of the Constitution, in the case of dispute, is the business of the Constitutional Court of Spain.

The Constitutional Court has final authority to determine which matters are constitutional matters and which are not.

The SCA is subordinate to the Constitutional Court in all constitutional matters but exercises final jurisdiction in non-constitutional cases, and hence judges of the SCA tend to have expertise in much broader and wider fields of law such as intellectual property and property law.

* Constitutional Court – The final court of appeal for matters related to the constitution

The Commission on Constitutional Revision presented its report and recommendations to Governor Godwin and the General Assembly in January 1969, and continued to work with them to draft a final consensus version.

As a final measure of appeal, a convicted service member may also petition the President of the United States for a reprieve or pardon under the Constitutional authority granted in Article II, Section 2.

Under South Africa's Interim Constitution of 1993 and later the Final Constitution, the importance of the position of Chief Justice as the position of final judicial authority was temporarily relegated beneath that of the President of the newly created Constitutional Court.

In 1832, John Russell had been nicknamed " Finality John " because of his statement that the 1832 Reform Act had just been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords would be the " final " expansion of the vote in Britain.

Neither party strove for further major reform ; leading statesmen on both sides regarded the Reform Act as a final settlement.

He was one of the principal leaders of the fight for the Reform Act 1832, earning the nickname Finality Jack from his complacency pronouncing the Act a final measure.

The creation of the Canadian Alliance, and its eventual merger in 2003 with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the new Conservative Party of Canada, alienated some of the old Reform populists, who saw the merger as the final demise of the former Reform Party and the return of Tory indifference to western Canadian concerns.

He made no allowances for Melbourne's need to keep the radicals on his side to preserve his shrinking majority in the Commons, and in particular he resented any slight on his own great achievement, the Reform Act, which he saw as a final solution of the question for the foreseeable future.

He remained active in the House of Lords for the next few years, making his final speech in opposition to Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and casting his final vote against the Reform Act 1832.

* Peel accepted that the Reform Act 1832 was " a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question ".

In its final form, the Reform Act of 1867 enfranchised all male householders and compounding was also subsequently abolished in the process.

Ultimately, though, the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed its final reading.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, some Conservative ( as evidenced in the Etz Hayim chumash ) and most Reform, Reconstructionist and Renewal congregations have switched to a triennial cycle, where the first third of each parashah is read one year, the second third the next year and the final third in a third year.

In the final years of the Qing dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), reform advocates in the government implemented certain aspects of the modernized Japanese legal system, itself originally based on German judicial precedents ( see Hundred Days ' Reform ).

On January 27, 2012 as required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules which require covered SEC-reporting issuers that are “ operator ( s )” ( or that has a subsidiary that is an “ operator ”) of a “ coal or other mine ” to disclose certain mine safety violations, citations and orders and related matters for each coal or other mine that they operate.

He was appointed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to fill the unexpired term of former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman on the Amtrak Reform Council and served from 1999 until the Council issued its final recommendations in 2002.

In the final years before the Reform Act, however, local magnates seem to have been allowed to exercise more influence in Bath.

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

The final attempt of the Hoover Administration to rescue the economy occurred in 1932 with the passage of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, which authorized funds for public works programs and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ).

The President of the Republic shall promulgate Acts of Parliament within fifteen days following the final adoption of an Act and its transmission to the Government.

The final bill, the USA PATRIOT Act was introduced into the House on October 23 and incorporated H. R.

The final Act included a number of sunsets which were to expire on December 15, 2005.

This final Act of the British Parliament regarding Canada had a different name, since it renamed all of the unrepealed earlier British North America Acts, amended some of them, and repealed all others, patriated all remaining legislative and constitutional powers to Canada, and included the Constitution Act, 1982 as its schedule.

At the last of these performances, Wagner took the baton from Levi and conducted the final scene of Act 3 from the orchestral interlude to the end.

Garfield at this time endorsed the view that the Senate, via the Tenure of Office Act, had final say on Presidential appointments, a position he would radically change when President himself.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 made extensive revisions to the " Title II " provisions regarding common carriers and repealed the judicial 1982 AT & T consent decree ( often referred to as the " modification of final judgment " or " MFJ ") that effectuated the breakup of AT & T's Bell System.

The Congress's " Final Act " was signed nine days before his final defeat at Waterloo on 18 June 1815.

After many decades of work both in British society and in Parliament, the group saw their efforts rewarded with the final passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, banning the trade throughout the British Empire and, after many further years of campaigning, the total emancipation of British slaves with the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.

The Powers at the Berlin Conference in its final Act in 1885, committed the State to improving the lives of the inhabitants.

After years of declining fans ' pleas for her to sing Garland's signature song, " Over The Rainbow ", she concluded Act 1 with the final refrain of her mother's famous anthem, to an instant ovation.

The most significant difference from the original play concerned the character of Young Lucius, who is a much more important figure in the adaptation ; he is present throughout Act 1, and retrieves the murder weapon after the death of Mutius ; it is his knife which Titus uses to kill the fly ; he aids in the capture of Chiron and Demetrius ; he is present throughout the final scene.

The city's boundaries have changed at various times since 1835 the final time being in 1974 when under the Local Government Act 1972 the city and county borough merged with the Border Rural District to become the new enlarged City of Carlisle, a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria.

The RUC was renamed and reformed, as is provided for by the final version of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 2000.

The final blow is dealt towards the end of the play, in Act 4, Scene 5, when Katherina is made to switch the words moon and sun, and she acknowledges that she will agree with whatever Petruchio says no matter how absurd:

In 1955, Remarque wrote the screenplay for an Austrian film, The Last Act ( Der letzte Akt ), about Hitler's final days in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, which was based on the book Ten Days to Die ( 1950 ) by Michael Musmanno.

Verdi finally completed the composition of the opera on 5 February 1851, a little more than month before the premiere, although as he worked on the final stages of Act 3, Piave had already arranged for the sets to be designed.

The Committee approved the final conference bill on July 24, 2002, and gave it the name " the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

On September 15, 2010 the SEC issued final rule 33-9142 the permanently exempts registrants that are neither accelerated nor large accelerated filers as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 from Section 404 ( b ) internal control audit requirement.