Quotes About Constitutional

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Now the fundamental constitutional problem of the Long War has been answered. Government by consent, freely given and periodically capable of being withdrawn, is what legitimates the nation-state. Government under law—not government that is above the law—provides the means by which states are legitimated.* So the next question intrudes itself: what are the strategic consequences of the peace? What

Though pressure for constitutional change has tended to come from the left, various works critical of the contemporary polity have appeared in recent years from commentators on the right, a number adopting a polemical approach

more comparative material, not least in locating British society in relation to European and U.S. society (especially in Chapter 1 ). â–  a sharper delineation of the legacies of empire, war, class, and political structures in shaping the contemporary British polity ( Chapter 3 ). â–  coverage of constitutional change ( Chapter 4 ), including a settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland ( Chapter 10 ), and the introduction of a Supreme Court ( Chapter 14

between the constitutional formality and the political reality. For example, ministers are responsible formally to the monarch. Because of the political changes wrought in the nineteenth century, they are by convention responsible now also to Parliament. By convention, the government

turmoil and the legacy of an unpopular war with Iraq; the Conservative opposition looked likely to form the next government; and many of the constitutional reforms were no

Important names in the twentieth century included constitutional lawyers and academics such as Sir Ivor Jennings, Sir Kenneth Wheare, Geoffrey Marshall, O. Hood Phillips, and E. C. S.6 Wade and in the twenty-first century include Vernon Bogdanor, Rodney Brazier, and Peter Hennessy.7

parliamentary majority; the Conservative opposition appeared to be destined for a lengthy stay in the political wilderness; the country was enjoying continued, indeed unparalleled, economic growth; and the constitutional reforms introduced by the Government—not least devolution of power to elected assemblies in Scotland and Wales—appeared to be bedding

turmoil and the legacy of an unpopular war with Iraq; the Conservative opposition looked likely to form the next government; and many of the constitutional reforms were not

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express or implied mandate of the Parliament, is unconstitutional and void.

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

I am very against this love jihad law. I feel it's an unconstitutional law because in our country, in this democracy, we have the right... we are granted religious freedom. So, if you are saying that women can vote, then it follows naturally that women can also choose their own partners and women can choose their own fate.

It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

It is my view that our response to the Brexit vote should not have been to turn in on ourselves. At a time of grave constitutional and economic challenge for our country, it was incumbent on us to rise to this threat and ensure that the Labour party should defend the interests of our communities and not allow the Tories a free hand.

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago.

If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution–certainly would, if such a right were a vital one.