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a constitutional ban
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The Republican agenda included a constitutional ban on abortion.
a constitutional crisis (= relating to the way a country is governed )
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The scandal caused the greatest constitutional crisis of modern times.
a constitutional right
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Teachers have a constitutional right to join a union.
political/democratic/constitutional reform
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He stressed that democratic reform could not be achieved overnight.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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amendment
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It could, however, have made clear the difference between constitutional amendment and political revolution.
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They might remember also that without bipartisan accommodation the graduated income tax never would have become a constitutional amendment .
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It also passed enabling legislation to allow further constitutional amendments to be made in the wake of the peace treaty.
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And Dole backed a constitutional amendment proposed by Reagan to create a line-item budget veto for presidents.
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This situation can only be changed by constitutional amendment .
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Republicans have complained that Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to incite seniors groups and others to oppose the constitutional amendment .
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The Nov. 4 referendum proposed that a simple majority should in future be sufficient to pass constitutional amendments .
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A constitutional amendment that would allow prayer in public schools.
arrangement
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What is clear is that current constitutional arrangements do suit an authoritarian government well.
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He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
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Here, the difficulty revolves around the different constitutional arrangements operative in the two jurisdictions being compared.
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The treaties have the potential to change our constitutional arrangements and the powers of Parliament.
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The only form of constitutional arrangements which socialist states took seriously after 1917 were formulas for national federation and autonomy.
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The great merit of our constitutional arrangements is that they have developed cautiously and case by case.
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Mr. Lang My hon. Friend identifies part of the problem which those who favour changes in the constitutional arrangements should address.
authority
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By and large, constitutional authorities , parties and public alike were pleased with the set up.
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For these reasons we hold that this law exceeds the constitutional authority of Congress.
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The boundaries of sovereignty must be determined in the light of the prevailing moral and political climate when difficult questions of constitutional authority arise.
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The conservative justices said the lawmakers had exceeded their constitutional authority .
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Rude power is out of mesh with the prevailing patterns of legitimate constitutional authority .
ban
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As President, Özal refused to consider an immediate suspension of the constitutional ban on political parties.
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Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions.
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A less controversial proposal was a constitutional ban on the extradition of drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States.
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The convention could include a battle over whether to retain the platform plank calling for a constitutional ban on abortion.
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Anti-abortionists have launched a vigorous campaign to reinforce the constitutional ban on abortion.
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They must somehow persuade Republicans to de-emphasize a constitutional ban in order to win allies outside of the antiabortion camp.
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Robert Dornan and Patrick Buchanan -- to pledge to continue to include in the Republican platform a constitutional ban on abortions.
change
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He did not claim to be absolutely original in his cyclical theory of constitutional changes .
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Silvio Berlusconi and a group of Catholic parties want a widely based government to work on constitutional changes .
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Let us, then, deal with this second aspect of the Labour Party's proposals for constitutional change .
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The threat of violence and real fear of revolution prompted the Government to adopt limited constitutional changes .
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Does he rule out any constitutional change ?
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The necessary constitutional changes would require approval by a three-quarters majority in the 70-seat Assembly.
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It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments, including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change .
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Unfortunately, under present rules, such a constitutional change needs parliament's consent.
convention
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Without realizing it Macmillan trespassed on the modern constitutional convention .
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The group, which set up its own provisional government in December, hopes to hold a constitutional convention within two years.
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Whatever the formal constitutional conventions and party rules, the Prime Minister is normally in effective control.
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The Bill draws on the scheme proposed by the constitutional convention .
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In this sense, the legal doctrine of sovereignty is the most fundamental of our constitutional conventions .
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The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear.
court
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A constitutional court could not have prevented dictatorship by annulling the law.
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The matter is pending before the constitutional court .
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His lawyers have appealed to the constitutional court against the decree, which was agreed by a simple cabinet majority.
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Finally, a constitutional court would inpart replace the function of the Weimar President in acting as a counterweight to parliament.
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It provided for a separation of powers, the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections.
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If the constitutional court upholds the false declaration of assets indictment against him he will have to resign.
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The President also urged the setting up of a constitutional court and the holding of referendums to settle future constitutional disputes.
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The Herrenchiemsee Draft of the Basic Law provided for a constitutional court .
crisis
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Bill Archer is very worried, deeply troubled that a constitutional crisis may be approaching.
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Just get it through your tiny 1914-pattern mind that you have started a constitutional crisis !
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Was a constitutional crisis at hand?
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This trait was in evidence last week as the president, Leonid Kravchuk, threw his country into a constitutional crisis .
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In 1861-2 a constitutional crisis arose, whose outcome fundamentally affected subsequent developments.
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Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.
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Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis .
framework
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The Government must establish the constitutional framework for stable and decentralised government.
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The constitutional framework makes the shareholders responsible for monitoring and supervising the directors of the company.
government
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What was much more important to me was the emergence of what I consider to be the breakdown of constitutional government .
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A military junta had just overthrown the constitutional government and annulled a recently held presidential election.
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Joynson-Hicks announced this to the Cabinet as though it were the end of constitutional government .
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Administrative force and nerve were not lacking, and the constitutional government managed to ride out the storm.
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The strike was a challenge to constitutional government .
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As the confederation moved toward constitutional government , issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
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The offense, however, not only was political but constituted an act of treason against the constitutional government .
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His appeal to Wilson modestly requested constitutional government , democratic freedoms and other reforms for Vietnamconspicuously omitting any reference to independence.
guarantee
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The letter called for implementation of constitutional guarantees , freedom and justice, and criticized the government's handling of the economy.
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The czars introduced constitutional guarantees , only to ignore them whenever it suited their purpose.
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Collectivism is thus given a very positive image when linked to constitutional guarantees of individual rights.
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What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees .
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Beside these confusions, the constitutional guarantee of free speech has an impressive simplicity.
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The present case, then, concerns a relationship lying within the zone of privacy created by several fundamental constitutional guarantees .
issue
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The Government can expect sustained flak on the wider constitutional issue now that this can of worms has been opened up.
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And the license was denied, though not on the grounds we cited, because our argument raised constitutional issues .
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Unlike the Prime Minister, I am prepared to have a referendum on this fundamental constitutional issue .
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It was a constitutional issue and would be tossed up through the courts, yet by then it would be too late.
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The constitutional issues thus become not much more than flourishes to a faitaccompli.
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Likewise, constitutional issues need to be resolved in a nonpolitical forum.
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The election will take the heat off the constitutional issue , at least for the time being.
law
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Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty, it is argued, properly belongs in constitutional law .
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He was well informed on civil and constitutional law .
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It came to occupy a unique place in constitutional law .
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Footnote 4 has served as a cornerstone of contemporary constitutional law in the field of individual rights.
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Nor can the operation of constitutional law be understood without reference to the practice of politics.
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First, the parties can not enter into any contractual negotiations that are in violation of constitutional law .
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Here is another problem in constitutional law to reinforce the point.
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Amato, 54, was a professor of constitutional law , originally from Turin.
lawyer
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This is the traditional view of most constitutional lawyers .
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Ching is generally considered one of the finest constitutional lawyers in Arizona.
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Mr Kostunica, a constitutional lawyer and moderate nationalist, has continued to question the tribunal's legitimacy.
matter
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In most modern societies, parties have key positions on economic and social issues or on constitutional matters .
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The Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the state courts in constitutional matters . 6.
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Mr. Speaker I can not be involved with constitutional matters of that kind.
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There is therefore no elaboration in the forum proceedings on hierarchical directives to their faithful on constitutional matters .
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This is not to say that there is no place for the principle of legality in constitutional matters .
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In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters .
monarchy
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That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect.
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The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy .
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Under a constitutional monarchy , the Tsar was Grand Duke, with a bicameral legislature.
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Both, also, were constitutional monarchies .
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Number one, in all senses, was to establish a democratic, constitutional monarchy .
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Opposition leaders hailed the visit, calling for a referendum on the restoration of the constitutional monarchy .
negotiation
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Buthelezi for his part warned that Kwazulu would consider secession if constitutional negotiations did not guarantee adequate self-determination in a federal structure.
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His task was to be to assess whether the Commonwealth could assist with constitutional negotiations .
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Differences remained, however, on the procedure for constitutional negotiations .
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In late June anti-government leaflets distributed in Yangon denounced the military-directed constitutional negotiations .
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Their return was a precondition of the anticipated full-scale constitutional negotiations .
order
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Is the constitutional order evolving or is it under attack?
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Inclan and the people of Puebla remained loyal to Herrera and to constitutional order and refused to accede to his demands.
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Anticommunism and the constitutional order provided the principal sources of political cohesion in the new political entity.
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Political disagreement and disagreement on the proper constitutional order are linked.
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Disaffected Cantarero supporters were considered by observers to be a danger to future constitutional order .
party
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The Comintern Congress was trying to reconcile its revolutionary past with the necessity of gaining support from constitutional parties .
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No major change in the strength of all the main constitutional parties is expected once counting ends tonight.
position
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It was drawn narrowly because of the constitutional position of the courts.
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His constitutional position is entirely different.
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In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later.
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The special interpretation of the term reasonableness is decided by the constitutional position of the courts.
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To pretend otherwise is to confuse the constitutional position .
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The changing positions of the two parties vis-à-vis the Court caused a certain realignment in their respective constitutional positions.
power
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The President is advised by a Council of State and holds specific constitutional powers .
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The president could use his constitutional powers to move troops about at his discretion.
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In recent years they have been accused of exceeding their constitutional power and becoming an alternative parliament.
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So I repeat that this statute in its immediate operation is clearly within the Congress's constitutional power .
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This change in status is implicit in discussions of whether the U. S. Government had the constitutional power to nationalize leprosy.
principle
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Even the constitutional principle itself hardly captured the popular imagination.
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It has legislated to change fundamental constitutional principles .
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Do constitutional principles apply to damage awards?
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The Dennis case in the United States provides us with a hint as to how departures from constitutional principle may be explained.
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Does the bedrock constitutional principle of equal protection for all require affirmative action, merely allow it, or even prohibit it?
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Meticulous observance of constitutional principle is to be tempered by regard for political effectiveness.
proposal
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Can evidence of such change be found in the referendum that rejected Mugabe's outrageous constitutional proposals ?
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He re-emerged in 1987 and 1991 to fight constitutional proposals to recognise Quebec as a distinct society.
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Progress of constitutional talks Buoyed by its success in the referendum, the government moved swiftly to present revised constitutional proposals .
protection
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The Supreme Court is expected to weaken further the nationwide constitutional protection for abortion early next year.
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The issues the Republicans deem worthy of constitutional protection are a motley lot of special-interest pleadings.
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It is this concept of constitutional protection embodied in our decisions which makes the cases before us such difficult ones for me.
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As constitutional protection , this is a fraud.
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It is doubtful that such a new constitutional protection would do much to reduce crime.
question
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Do you think ours is an island where people have no interest in rights and constitutional questions , unlike elsewhere?
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The constitutional question before the court is whether a sitting president may be forced to face civil litigation while in office.
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The constitutional questions include the tricky decision as to which councillors could vote on which issues at county council meetings.
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This is the perspective from which we should approach the novel constitutional questions presented by the legislative veto.
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No doubt there were other reasons besides the constitutional question .
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The four dissenting justices wanted to dispose of the case without considering the constitutional question .
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In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the statusquo.
reform
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An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform , made by Congress in 1989.
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Sri Lanka's president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, has suspended parliament ahead of a referendum this month on constitutional reform .
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The administration will also hold a plebiscite within the next six months for the approval of constitutional reforms .
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Roy Hattersley's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform .
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This does not mean that constitutional reform is dead.
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In October 1918 the constitutional reforms so long demanded came in a rush, apparently as gifts from above.
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What I do believe is that you don't get constitutional reform because you can have a better constitution.
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Nu Ousted A conference on constitutional reform opened on 1 March 1962.
right
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The politicians, promoters and sweeping sentiment converged to conspire against his constitutional right to work: stated barred him from fighting.
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Outside the door of the workplace, Mary McCafferty, the citizen, has constitutional rights .
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All three voted last year to uphold Roe v Wade, the 1973 case that established a constitutional right to an abortion.
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Indignant, some rejected both questions as long as they were denied their constitutional rights .
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The organization said that the composition of the court grossly violated the constitutional rights of the suspects.
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The ruling declared that dying people have a constitutional right to end their suffering.
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Strengthen the constitutional rights of individuals within Northern Ireland.
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Jewett said he was sympathetic, but that the boy had a constitutional right to be present in the courtroom.
settlement
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In some cases there are calls for a new constitutional settlement .
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The aim of the exercise is to win support for the constitutional settlement that Britain and Ireland have already outlined.
structure
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The elegant constitutional structure he is trying to create could rest on shifting economic foundations.
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But there are many desirable dispositions that do not accord with the constitutional structure we live under.
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But who makes the operative decisions is not just a matter of constitutional structures and personalities.
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And in the long run the improvisation of a constitutional structure on the basis of currently perceived utility will be disastrous.
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They rescued impeachment from oblivion and made it part of their backward-looking constitutional structure .
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How effective is this constitutional structure of the company in ensuring that directors do not use their powers arbitrarily?
system
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This appears from the role assigned to the Bundestag, elections and political parties in the constitutional system .
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If the new telecommunications age brings unmediated democracy, what will happen to our carefully contrived constitutional system of checks and balances?
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The constitutional system defines but does not usurp the powers and responsibilities of government and parliament.
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Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.
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This result is inconsistent with the fundamental principles of our constitutional system .
theory
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This is, according to constitutional theory , the position in the United Kingdom.
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The logic of this argument is that our constitutional theory and machinery must be reformed.
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New constitutional theories will rapidly come to assume centre stage.
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Is there warrant for this in constitutional theory or judicial practice?
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We have to attend to the dynamic tension between constitutional theory and political practice, and to change over time.
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Again, constitutional theory maintains that ministers are both collectively and individually responsible to Parliament for their actions.
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Crudely expressed, corruption was of the political essence and was the practical counterpoint to the constitutional theory of balance.
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Social, economic and political developments crushed the eighteenth-century constitution and hence the credibility of the established constitutional theory .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A court decision in 1954 ruled that segregated education was not constitutional .
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Nobody seemed to know whether the President's action was constitutional or not.
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The court will rule on whether the prisoner's constitutional rights were violated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A less controversial proposal was a constitutional ban on the extradition of drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States.
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An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform, made by Congress in 1989.
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The constitutional and organizational arrangements filter the interests of state personnel towards the long-run interests of the capitalists.
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The concept finally won approval last year in a simple piece of legislation, less exalted than a constitutional amendment.
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The focus of the forum blurred into Charter 88's campaign for constitutional reform in general.
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This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For Francis this nightly constitutional had its place in a. larger fantasy.