This expression encapsulated the right of citizens to take the initiative: to stand to speak in the assembly, to initiate a public law suit ( that is, one held to affect the political community as a whole ), to propose a law before the lawmakers or to approach the council with suggestions.

Mr. Steel did not call the motion but Murray ( now Lord Murray, a former Senator of the College of Justice of Scotland ) agrees that the Commons still have the right to initiate an impeachment motion.

Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia ( Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic ) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

Lysander Spooner, a 19th century lawyer and staunch supporter of a right of contract between individuals, in his essay No Treason, argues that a supposed social contract cannot be used to justify governmental actions such as taxation, because government will initiate force against anyone who does not wish to enter into such a contract.

The President has the right to initiate the legislative process.

Each member of the Bundestag has the right to initiate legislation, as do the cabinet and the Bundesrat.

With the introduction of absolute monarchy in Denmark – Norway in 1660 under Frederick III, the Icelanders relinquished their autonomy to the crown, including the right to initiate and consent to legislation.

A DPP proposal to allow the citizen right to initiate constitutional referendums was pulled off the table due to a lack of support.

In this ceremony, a " sacred cord " is vested to the initiate, symbolizing this right.

The three most notable examples are the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war as an instrument of national policy, the London Charter ( known also as the Nuremberg Charter ) defining " crimes against peace " as one of three major categories of international crime to be prosecuted after World War II, and the United Nations Charter, which binds nations to seek resolution of disputes by peaceful means and requires authorization by the United Nations before a nation may initiate any use of force against another, beyond the inherent right of self-defense against an armed attack.

While the revolutionary party was numerically a minority, it was an all powerful institution, which had the right to initiate a policy even if the majority of the population were against it.

Clairmont was also entirely in sympathy, more so than Mary, with Shelley's theories about free love, communal living, and the right of a woman to choose her own lovers and initiate sexual contact outside of marriage.

At the diet of 1882 the Governor-General gave the Emperors announcement that the diet would have the right to submit bills, but he would be the only one to initiate changes regarding the constitution and military issues.

Expresses the most complex level of evolution, can express integration of dualistic issues in complex ways, interconnected, spiraling, connect across right and left, integrating the analytic verbal side with the spatial symbolic ; feeling & form ; simultaneous relationships in several complex directions " tying and untying forms in three-dimensional space ", " winding in one body area will initiate an unwinding in another to complete the phrase, thus opening space in a new way ", conceptualize how phenomena are networked and multifaceted.

Corporations and government agencies that initiate legal actions to overturn these ordinances have been forced to argue in opposition to the community ’ s right to make governing decisions on issues with harmful and direct local impact.

In 1638 the assembly forced him to govern according to the laws of England, and subsequently the right to initiate legislation passed to the assembly.

Not less than one tenth of electors has the right to initiate a national referendum regarding recalling of the Saeima.

Countersteering is the technique used by single-track vehicle operators, such as cyclists and motorcyclists, to initiate a turn toward a given direction by momentarily steering counter to the desired direction (" steer left to turn right ").

Instead of simply selecting a ' Fight ' command in order to initiate a physical attack, the player specifies the location of each attack ; ' Right ' and ' Left ' will strike with the right and left arms, respectively, and ' High ' and ' Low ' strike at their respective heights.

To their right, the initiate is in a panic.

Despite the urgings of the then chairman of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, Steel did not table such a motion in the House of Commons, but Murray agrees that the Commons still have the right to initiate an impeachment motion.

The marriage contract can also specify where the couple will live, whether or not the first wife will allow the husband to take a second wife without her consent, whether or not the wife has the right to initiate divorce, and other such matters.

Sometimes, a person wishes something good, but God doesn ’ t help him — maybe because the intention came from the devil and is not for our benefit ; or maybe because it is beyond our strength as we have not attained the necessary spiritual level ; or maybe because it doesn ’ t correspond to our calling ; or maybe because the time is not right to initiate it ; or maybe because we don ’ t have the necessary knowledge or strength to accomplish it ; or maybe because circumstances will not contribute to its success.

This passion was also to initiate another, as in literature he and his future wife Ruth ( a writer in her own right ) were to find common ground.

Nobody can deny the right of former Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

" But the 1966 national assembly elections showed a significant swing to the right, and General Lon Nol formed a new government, which lasted until 1967.

The right to one's own language is guaranteed by the Constitution for all national and ethnic minorities.

* In some Commonwealth countries resident citizens of other Commonwealth countries are entitled to political rights, e. g., the right to vote in local and national elections and in some cases even the right to stand for election.

Article 18 provided a limited right to free movement and residence in Member States other than that of which the European Union citizen is a national.

State constitutions may grant certain rights above and beyond what are granted under the United States Constitution and may impose their own obligations including the sovereign right of taxation and military service ; each state maintains at least one military force subject to national militia transfer service, the state's national guard, and some states maintain a second military force not subject to nationalization.

Higher education is therefore very important to national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right, and as a source of trained and educated personnel for the rest of the economy.

Article 13 provides for the right for an effective remedy before national authorities for violations of rights under the Convention.

The inability to obtain a remedy before a national court for an infringement of a Convention right is thus a free-standing and separately actionable infringement of the Convention.

Protocol 12 extends this prohibition to cover discrimination in any legal right, even when that legal right is not protected under the Convention, so long as it is provided for in national law.

In national usage, national protocol usually demands the national flag takes precedence over the European flag ( which is usually displayed to the right of the national flag from the observer's perspective ).

On occasions where the European flag is flown alongside all national flags ( for example, at a European Council meeting ), the national flags are placed in alphabetical order ( according to their name in the main language of that state ) with the European flag either at the head, or the far right, of the order of flags.

[...] f there are practices and policies which have potential to undermine the national security and territorial integrity of Fiji, the RFMF has every right under the Constitution to intervene.

After a very heated national debate, legislation was passed in 1985 that gave women an equal right to decide what surname or surnames they and their children would use.

There is a scholarly consensus that fascism was influenced by both left and right, conservative and anti-conservative, national and supranational, rational and anti-rational.

The Fascists assisted the anti-socialist campaign by allying with the other parties and the conservative right in a mutual effort to destroy the Italian Socialist Party and labour organizations committed to class identity above national identity.

Significant progress in implementing the right to food at national scale in Africa, Latin America and South Asia " United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Briefing Note 01, 14 May 2010.