The episode marks a constitutional crisis that was resolved by a tradition of non-interference in Canadian political affairs on the part of the British government.

* In a 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, an opening sketch portraying U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi includes the House Speaker discussing the constitutional rights of Americans to engage in " alternative or rough sex " and promotes her preferred and favorite safeword: " palomino ".

On an October 10, 2007, episode of The Daily Show, Lynne Cheney stated her opposition to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

After ten years of campaigning in Washington D. C. and across the country through its chapters ' grassroots efforts, the JACL brought to a close a final episode in one of the darkest chapters in the constitutional history of the nation.

The comedian Chris Morris satirised Public information films in The Day Today in an episode where there was a constitutional crisis.

This remarkable constitutional episode arose because of the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the legislation introduced to give that Treaty legal effect.

After an initially conservative period, strong liberal sentiments arose, so that in the 1848 constitution the country was made a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch.

A constitutional crisis arose when the king dismissed the Fox-North coalition government and named Pitt to replace it.

He decided to have zero of them, and appointed instead Councillors of State-a circumvention that enabled him to deny their constitutional prerogatives if need arose.

Although the Panama Canal Zone was legally an unincorporated US territory until the implementation of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1979, questions arose almost from its inception as to whether the Zone was considered part of the United States for constitutional purposes, or, in the phrase of the day, whether the Constitution followed the flag.

American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies ( although before this, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies ).

Some doubt arose over the constitutional legality of Musharraf's rule.

Following the enactment of the Manitoba Act, questions arose whether the federal Parliament had the constitutional authority to create new provinces by ordinary federal statute.

The Ministry was created for Harold Wilson on 1 November 1968 when responsibilities for the pay and management of the civil service was transferred from Her Majesty's Treasury to a new Civil Service Department ; to make clear the continued authority of the First Lord of the Treasury ( an office held by the Prime Minister ) over the Civil Service, a constitutional convention arose that the Prime Minister would be head of the Department.

The constitutional Portuguese government, with whom he-in spite of his absolutistic inclinations-was on very good terms, repeatedly called in his collaboration and his knowledge of the history of cartography and discovery whenever there arose conflicts with other powers regarding Portugal's claims to territories in Africa.

This society, which arose out of the public excitement created by the Austro-Sardinian War, had for its object the formation of a national party which should strive for the unity and the constitutional liberty of the whole Fatherland.

The polls returned the nation to constitutional democratic rule after a devastating civil war that arose from long-standing ethnic tensions between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority.

The last attempt at a comprehensive package of constitutional amendments was the Charlottetown Accord, which arose out of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord.

A violation of rights by an official would be ultra vires because a ( constitutional ) right is a restriction on the powers of government, and therefore that official would be exercising powers he doesn't have.

Courts generally interpret statutes that create new causes of action narrowly – that is, limited to their precise terms — because the courts generally recognize the legislature as being supreme in deciding the reach of judge-made law unless such statute should violate some " second order " constitutional law provision ( cf.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

This has an interesting consequence because treaties that limit or extend the powers of the Dutch government are automatically considered a part of their constitutional law, for example, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Scholars have pointed out the Supreme Court itself already had engaged in judicial review before Marbury, although it had not struck down the statute in question because it concluded that the statute was constitutional.

Furthermore, many thought that the title " Prime Minister " usurped the Sovereign's constitutional position as " head of the government " and that it was an affront to other ministers because they were all appointed by and equally responsible to the Sovereign.

Second, the lawyers argued that the statute violated Scopes's constitutional right to free speech because it prohibited him from teaching evolution.

Nevertheless, having found the statute to be constitutional, the court set aside the conviction on appeal because of a legal technicality: the jury should have decided the fine, not the judge, since under the state constitution, Tennessee judges could not at that time set fines above $ 50, and the Butler Act specified a minimum fine of $ 100.

However, when Michigan sought to hold a state constitutional convention in 1833, Congress rejected the request because of the still disputed Toledo Strip.

When a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent, a lot of time is taken up in the conversations of politicians and in the news media, speculating on who will, or will not, be moved in and out of the Cabinet by the Prime Minister, because the appointment of ministers to the Cabinet, and threat of dismissal from the Cabinet, is the single most powerful constitutional power which a Prime Minister has in the political control of the Government in the Westminster system.

The trial court, located in Chittenden County, granted the defendants ' motion, ruling additionally that the marriage statutes could not be construed to allow same-sex marriages, and that the statutes were constitutional because they served the public interest by promoting " the link between procreation and child rearing ".

In politics, a de facto leader of a country or region is one who has assumed authority, regardless of whether by lawful, constitutional, or legitimate means ; very frequently, the term is reserved for those whose power is thought by some faction to be held by unlawful, unconstitutional, or otherwise illegitimate means, often because it had deposed a previous leader or undermined the rule of a current one.

Some courts and observers opine that cases must be dismissed because this is a constitutional bar, and there is no " case or controversy "; others have rejected the pure constitutional approach and adopted a so-called " prudential " view, where dismissal may depend upon a host of factors, whether the particular person has lost a viable interest in the case, or whether the issue itself survives outside the interests of the particular person, whether the circumstance are likely to recur, etc.

During this time, however, the court was divided 4-4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand.

Contending, however, that the formation of Putnam was illegal because it reduced their areas below constitutional limits, Overton and Jackson counties secured an injunction against its continued operation.

Unlike the British constitutional system, in Belgium the monarchy underwent a belated evolution which came after the establishment of the constitutional monarchical system because, in 1830-1831, an independent state, parliamentary system and monarchy were established simultaneously.

This aspect was vital because the question was not whether the schools were " equal ", which under Plessy they nominally should have been, but whether the doctrine of separate was constitutional.

In the Boerne case, the Supreme Court decided that RFRA overstepped Congress's authority, because the statute was not sufficiently connected to the goal of remedying a constitutional violation, but instead created new rights that are not guaranteed by the Constitution.

Many of the vice-regal reserve powers are untested, because of the brief constitutional history of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the observance of the convention that the head of state acts upon the advice of his or her chief minister.

At the same time, the domains may vary because of their constitutional differences but also differences in individual preferences and inclinations.

The instrument has never been of any practical importance – the few attempts at recall so far have failed, usually because the required number of signatures was not collected – and it was abolished in the course of constitutional revisions in Aargau ( 1980 ), Baselland ( 1984 ) and Lucerne ( 2007 ).

While speaking in Parliament on the incident, Nehru stated that he was accepting the resignation because it would set an example in constitutional propriety and not because Shastri was in any way responsible for the accident.

However, Gerry Adams insisted that the Belfast Agreement provided a mechanism to deliver a united Ireland by non-violent and constitutional means, much as Michael Collins had said of the Anglo-Irish Treaty nearly 80 years earlier.

In power from 1932, de Valera amended the Free State's constitution the time, amendable by simple majority in the Dáil, firstly to allow him to introduce any constitutional amendments irrespective of whether they clashed with the Anglo-Irish Treaty, then amended the constitution to remove Article 17 of the constitution which required the taking of the Oath.

The method used was complicated by the fact that the Free State was seceding from the United Kingdom, that the British wished to incorporate a mechanism whereby the new constitution would be subordinate to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and that the new constitution had to be legitimate both in British law and within the constitutional theory of Irish nationalists.

* Laws or constitutional amendments were invalid if they violated the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

* The requirement for laws and constitutional amendments to comply with the Anglo-Irish Treaty was removed.

On the same day as the 1937 election the Constitution of Ireland was adopted by a plebiscite, moving the State further away from the constitutional position envisaged by the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.