The choice of a £ 200 threshold as the criterion for general dissolution under the legislation has been queried, as this does not appear to correspond to any clear distinction in the quality of religious life reported in the visitation reports, and the preamble to the legislation refers to numbers rather than income.

The Preamble serves solely as an introduction, and does not assign powers to the federal government ,< ref > See Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U. S. 11, 22 ( 1905 ) (" Although th preamble indicates the general purposes for which the people ordained and established the Constitution, it has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the government of the United States, or on any of its departments.

The mention of God in the preamble of the Constitution ( and later on the Brazilian currency ) was opposed by most leftists as incompatible with freedom of religion because it does not recognise the rights of polytheists ( like the Amerindians ) or atheists, but it has not been removed so far.

It is composed of three sections: the name of the body issuing the resolution ( be it the Security Council, the General Assembly, a subsidiary organ of the GA, or any other resolution-issuing organization ), which serves as the subject of the sentence ; the preambular clauses ( also called preambular phrases ) indicating the reasons behind the resolution as a preamble does in other documents ; and the operative clauses ( also called operative phrases ) in which the body delineates the course of action it will take ( if it is the Security Council or a UN organ making policy for within the UN ) or recommends to be taken ( in many Security Council resolutions and for all other bodies when acting outside the UN ).

However, in the last sentence of the preamble, the drafters inserted " However, Germany does not have the intention to use the armistice conditions and armistice negotiations as a form of humiliation against such a valiant opponent " referring to the French forces.

In this presentation, the watch analogy ( step 1 ) does not function as a premise to an argument — rather it functions as a rhetorical device and a preamble.

# Beal, Cardinal Rules of Legal Interpretation p. 257 (" in construing an Act of Parliament where the intention of the legislature is declared by the preamble, we are to give effect to that preamble to this extent, namely, that it shows us what the legislature are intending ; and if the words of enactment have a meaning which does not go beyond that preamble, or which may come up to the preamble, in either case we prefer that meaning to one showing an intention of the legislature which would not answer the purposes of the preamble, or which would go beyond them.

The Treaty itself is short, consisting of a preamble and three articles.

Though competition law itself would have remained unchanged, other goals of the preamble — which include " full employment " and " social progress "— carry the perception of greater specificity, and as being ends in themselves, while " free competition " is merely a means.

( The 1777 constitution refers to Vermont both as " the State of Vermont ," as in the third paragraph of the preamble, and in the preamble's last paragraph the constitution refers to itself as " the Constitution of the Commonwealth.

A major opportunity for reform seemed to present itself during the sejm of 1788 – 92, which opened on October 6, 1788 with 181 deputies, and from 1790 – in the words of the May 3 Constitution's preamble – met " in dual number ", when 171 newly elected Sejm deputies joined the earlier-established Sejm.

Before a burst of data there will always be a preamble of at least 576 bits of data containing alternating 1s and 0s, allowing the receiver to synchronize itself to the signal, and is another mechanism that enables the receiver to be turned off for a large percentage of the time.

After the preamble comes numbered articles, which contain the substance of the parties ' actual agreement.

These slots contain a specially coded preamble that identify the subframe and its position within the audio block.

While it had become uncommon for British Acts of Parliament to contain a preamble, the absence of one from the Government of India Act 1935 contrasts sharply with the 1919 Act, which set out the broad philosophy of that Act's aims in relation to Indian political development.

Likewise, in Australia in 1998, a referendum on whether to adopt a new preamble was accompanied by a promise that the preamble, if adopted, could not be enforceable by the courts, as some were concerned with how the preamble could be interpreted and applied.

The preamble is not an integral part of the constitution in the sense that it is enforceable in a court of law.

The Bosnian Constitutional Court, particularly citing the case law of the Supreme Court of Canada, also declared that the provisions of the preamble of the Bosnian Constitution are invested with a normative force thereby serving as a sound standard of judicial review for the Constitutional Court.

The preamble to the act stated: " it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom ... and ... it is just and necessary that a revenue should be raised ... for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same.

In 1971, however, the Council ruled unconstitutional ( Decision 71-44DC ) some provisions of a law changing the rules for the incorporation of private nonprofit associations, because they infringed on freedom of association, one of the principles given in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ; they used the fact that the preamble of the French constitution briefly referred to those principles to justify their decision.

Like other descriptive components of an Act ( such as the preamble, section headings, side notes, and short title ), the long title seldom affects the operative provisions of an Act, except where the operative provisions are unclear or ambiguous and the long title provides a clear statement of the legislature's intention.

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

The preamble makes reference to " many rebellious riots and tumults have been place of late in divers parts of this kingdom ", adding that those involved " presum so to do, for that the punishments provided by the laws now in being are not adequate to such heinous offences ".

In the preamble, the emperor makes a point that he has avoided convoluted expressions and " lofty Atticisms " on purpose, so as to make everything " plain as the beaten track of common, everyday speech " for his son and those high officials with whom he might later choose to share the work.

Universal service in telecommunications was eventually established as U. S. national policy by the Communications Act of 1934, whose preamble declared its purpose as “ to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges ”.

However, the line " the belief in God is essential to our welfare " in the preamble was untouched and remains so to this day.

Thus the constitution's preamble said that " socialism has won in our country " and so " finishing the socialist construction, we are changing over to building an advanced socialist society and gathering strength for the transition to communism.

Each charm is divided into two parts: a preamble telling the story of a mythological event ; and the actual spell in the form of a magic analogy ( just as it was before ... so shall it also be now ...).

His letter of 9 July 1606 to congratulate James I on his accession to the throne was three years late and seemed to English eyes merely a preamble to what followed, and his reference to the Gunpowder Plot, made against the life of the monarch and all the members of Parliament the previous November, was unfortunate for the papal cause, for papal agents were considered by the English to have been involved ( the effigy of Pope Paul V is still burnt every year during the Lewes Bonfire

The Act tells us in its preamble that the turnpike followed the old Barnsley to Pontefract road, inferring that the road was established and merely taken over by the turnpike trust.

And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:

In his preamble to the SIS ’ s constitution, Gokhale wrote that “ The Servants of India Society will train men prepared to devote their lives to the cause of country in a religious spirit, and will seek to promote, by all constitutional means, the national interests of the Indian people .” The Society took up the cause of promoting Indian education in earnest, and among its many projects organized mobile libraries, founded schools, and provided night classes for factory workers.

George spelt out certain principles which should guide the formulation of a new constitutional preamble.

A conservative principle -- the existing preamble should be retained as far as possible for constitutional continuity and social harmony.

Some constitutional scholars focus on the preamble of the Constitution Act, 1867 as providing the underlying reasons for an implied bill of rights.

In the Provincial Judges Reference, the Court fell short of using the preamble to state new constitutional obligations or limitations.

Since then, it is assumed that the " constitutional block " includes not only the Constitution, but also the other texts referred to in its preamble: the Declaration, but also the preamble of the 1946 Constitution ( which adds a number of " social rights ", as well as the equality of males and females ) and the Environment Charter of 2004.

In 1971, the Council ruled that conformity with the Constitution entails conformity with two texts referred to by the preamble of that constitution: the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the preamble of the constitution of the Fourth Republic, both of which list constitutional rights ( e. g. freedom of speech ).

The Supreme Federal Court has ruled that that this omission of the protection of God was not unconstitutional since the preamble of the constitution is simply an indication of principles that serves as an introduction to the constitutional text and reflects the ideological conceptions of the legislator, falling within the scope of political ideology and not of the Law.

During the 1999 Australian constitutional referendum there was some consideration regarding the inclusion of the term " mateship " in the preamble of the Australian constitution.

To do this would make the constitutional principle of Union under the British Crown together with other Commonwealth countries unworkable, would defeat a manifest intention expressed in the preamble of our Constitution, and would have the courts overstep their role in our democratic structure.

The preamble opens with a solemn invocation of God in continuance of Swiss constitutional tradition.