elections political democracy and the constitution

... define and explain to Congress and the people the nature of the crisis—implies the continued constitutional status of both Congress and the presidency But once we suspend the Constitution, the status ... of the West German Constitution states: "The constitutional status and the exercise of the constitutional functions of the Federal Constitutional Court and its judges must not be impaired." Other ... about constitutional maintenance and the limits of constitutional authority Central to my account is the language of reason and the distinction between constitutionalism and constitutions; the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... on the Penal System (1978), Appendix E 51 52 Sentencing and the constitution the nineteenth century None the less, the gradual (and recently rapid) accretion of sentencing decisions from the ... or for party political reasons For the present, some comfort can be taken from the checks and balances in the 2003 Act: the Council is obliged to consult the Home Secretary and the House of Commons ... their comments and it has the final decision on the form of the guidelines it issues This leads to the third matter The Council issues ‘definitive guidelines’, but what kind of law are these? They...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... whereby the right of the citizens of other states to vote and stand in the elections, on the conditions provided in the treaties, was introduced prior to the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty The ... enlargement and the constitutions of cee 11 amended their constitutions in this respect during the process of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty.6 In Ireland, Austria and Sweden, the constitutions ... into the role and rationale of the national constitutions in the process of European integration The book also considers the implications of the European Constitution, in the framework of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... I Constitution, state and beyond The British constitutional order Nature of the British constitution (a) Fundamentals and fluidity (b) Constitutional safeguards The constitution and the state Constitutional ... statutes and legal works but from a variety of official and unofficial publications and from the writings of political scientists, parliamentarians and other commentators on the constitution and the practice ... Ward: Shakespeare and Legal Imagination Zander: Cases and Materials on the English Legal System Zander: The Law-Making Process British Government and the Constitution Text and Materials Sixth...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... tenure of their posts; and it is "armed with the tremendous weapons" which slay legislation And if the voice of the Church was the voice of God, so the voice of the Court is the voice of the American ... by the substitution of the phrase "judicial power of the United States" for the phrase "jurisdiction of the Supreme Court," and also by the insertion of the words "this Constitution" and "the" ... opposition to the Constitution; if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... band in which a property fell (the more valuable the property , the higher the band, and the higher the Council Tax levied) , and the number of adults living in the property (single adult households ... demise , and the announcement of the newι/ Council Tax, the P缸tyspin doctors 聖170rked strenuously to drawthe 前旭位 out ofthe 悅耳誼也ce deb的 In tandem with the bland and low key 因而誼協前到區可正前孟加es on the 臼uncil ... contained the caveat, j 'in the c酪e of husbands and wives li悅耳 together， and couples living together 的 though they were m缸ried， each partner could be held responsible for the arr阻s owed by the other'...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... gene therapy to the reproductive cells themselves Will we perhaps be able to turn the sickly into the healthy, the weak into the strong, the small into the tall, the ugly into the beautiful and ... their personal principles to stay loyal to their party are on the whole regarded as virtuous They have done the right thing On the other hand, those who abandon their party to stay loyal to their ... the fate of their patients They also believed in magic But, crucially, they wrote down what they did, recorded their experiences, and taught other doctors The Greeks built on the lessons of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 06:16

... electoral democracy and lively politicking by individuals and organizations representative of the politically powerless At the same time that the war halted the momentum of political and social democracy, ... dramatized the supremacy of the free market and of the political system intimately associated with it in the United States and elsewhere, democracy, as defining features of the world of the twenty-first ... as the architecture of constitutional democracy and the system of power that it represented Neither the congressional buildings nor the White House was Myth in the Making attacked;3 nor were the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:47

... democratization across the Pacific rim of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands Collectively, these include some of the largest and smallest, richest and poorest, and most and least populous ... Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand embarked on sweeping overhauls of their political systems, refashioning their constitutions, legislatures, political parties, and other key ... of the cold war The geographical focus of the series will primarily be Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia OTHER BOOKS IN THE...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:16

... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Securities ... in their response to the challenges of financial innovation and the global “savings glut.” They allowed the crisis to develop and inhibited response after the crisis was front and center in the ... strengthened, the political bubble relaxes them When investors should hold more capital and reduce leverage, the political bubble allows the opposite When monetary policy should tighten, the political...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:44

... place to another and depends on the political elites as the artists The quality of village elections and the fate of village self-governance and democracy are affected at length by political elites’ ... state and society If the national and provincial elites are the makers and providers of the laws and institutions concerned, the officials at county and township levels are the carriers As the ... to the discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of Chinese village elections 6.3 The Implications: Theory and Practice Village elections and self-governance represent one of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... Press, 1976), 88 193 village elections and over time On the other hand, the distinction among these elites has become less and less clear Therefore, compared with the common villagers, all village ... tension between the party and the village committee “becomes the driving force for further elections and democratization”.22 19 Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, ... nomination of candidates by villagers with the right to vote and publicize the list of candidates; (g) confirm and publicize the voting date and the time; (h) make preparations for the election,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... committee positions and the requirements for candidates, the candidates list and their backgrounds, electoral procedure and regulations, the candidate’s votes, and the result of the voting “San bu ... about their own interests and their working style In theory, local leaders are better informed and educated than the rank -and file villagers, therefore they should have a better understanding of the ... or even the success or failure of the elections. ”36 The propaganda and mobilization make the villagers mentally prepared for the village elections The low level of Chinese peasants’ political...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... of rules and regulations, and then strengthening the close relationship between the masses and cadres; (6) developing and strengthening township and village collective economy, and political ... win the peasants’ strong support, and consequently the political elites’ reform program would fail Therefore, the key is whether and how political elites maintain a balance of democracy and the ... ties with the People’s Congress and its standing Committee at their administrative zone and actively and timely report to them about the work of the civil affairs so that the laws, rules and regulations...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... reformer and the opponent, crucial is how to avoid the worst outcome and win the most preferred one The dilemma is that the worst of the reformers is probably the most preferred of the opposition and ... co-operation and understanding between the People's Republic of China and the European Union; (b) enhance understanding and observance of the laws and regulations governing village elections on the part ... the form of village elections and village self-governance instead of other forms? Was it because the government had no other choices? In the wake of the dissolution of the People’s Commune, the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... participation and is favorable to the implementation of village election institution; the more developed the village economy, the more competitive the elections. 11 On the other hand, based on their surveys ... understanding of the issues at hand” 52 Like Shi Tianjian, Tong Zhihui, and others, I would consider political elites and their crafting as one of the central concerns of the process of village democracy ... “Without political elite/ the insiders of the system and their crafting, without rural democracy in China” Under the current Chinese political system and with the status quo of rural China, where there...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... state In other words, because they are intended to protect individuals and they allow them the liberty to conduct their lives in their own and various ways, they recognise and protect the existence ... socialist system and the new constitutional democracy Therefore the rule of law was the constitutional concept in the frame of which the differences in nature and characteristics of the system change ... state based on the rule of law It is governed according to the constitution and the laws of the country Similarly, Article 1.3 of the 1991 Romanian Constitution expands the notion of the rule of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... reduced, and a third reading of the bill in the Commons preceded the procedure through the Lords and the royal assent Only then would the tax be legally imposed on the subject Th is meticulous and ... dominated by the doctrine of the rule of law,147 and on this was based the constitutional theory of the separation of powers.148 After the revolution of 1689, the theory was refined and developed ... left the judges in the position merely of finding the meaning of the statute law, for they could not, constitutionally, make law themselves In these two ways the judges protected the rights of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... about the Constitution is crippled by the irrepressible misconception that the Constitution is one and the same with the storied document It is easy enough to understand the document’s appeal, and ... to the Constitution itself.9 Nevertheless, and however much exegesis is required to move from the text of the Constitution to judicial decisions about the text, theorists insist that the warp and ... between what the Court says and does, on the one hand, and the true Constitution somewhere in the background, on the other Fallon himself concedes that, if he is right, we would expect the Court...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... 1970 and 1980 At the same time, there has been a dramatic change in the racial and ethnic make-up of the population The share of Hispanics and Asian/ Pacific Islanders has doubled Combining these ... that is much more consumer and citizen friendly than the apparent view of the Chairman and the majority at the FCC The hundreds of thousands of cards and letters sent to the Commission by concerned ... Conceptualizing The Tyranny of the Majority in Media Markets These Audiences Are Served With Standard Fare To Maximize Contribution To Fixed Costs The Smaller The Minority And The Farther From The Mainstream...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20