Sentence examples for a constitutional plan from inspiring English sources

Justice Alice Robie Resnick, who had ruled against the state twice, said the court was acting as a "superlegislature" by imposing its version of a constitutional plan.

Called to head the ministry of the interior in December 1860 to formulate a workable constitutional plan for the empire, Schmerling devised a charter (the February Patent) that established a bicameral imperial legislature (Reichsrat) in 1861; but it was a body that was weighted in favour of the German-speaking Austrians.

Her constitutional plan for a quasi-federal system that would give greater autonomy to minority Tamils is dead for now, but she has said she will revive the proposal -- an effort to bring peace to a nation embroiled in a civil war with separatist Tamil militants -- after the elections.

The final report of the committee, which became the first draft of the Constitution, was the first workable constitutional plan, as Madison's Virginia Plan had simply been an outline of goals and a broad structure.

The military, emerging openly on to the political scene for the first time, had issued a declaration, ominously described as Communiqué Number Two, undertaking to guarantee a democratic transition, according to the slow constitutional plan framed by Mr Mubarak.

As a suit by one State against another State, it involved a distinct and essential principle of the constitutional plan which provided means for the judicial settlement of controversies between States of the Union, a principle which necessarily operates regardless of the consent of the defendant State.

Johnson was a terrible President, but his impeachment violated the constitutional plan.

24 It is true that this Court has played a large part in the unfolding of the constitutional plan (sometimes too much so in the opinion of some observers), but we would be arrogant indeed if we presumed that a government of laws, with protection for minority groups, would be impossible without it.

The waiver or consent, on the part of a State, which inheres in the acceptance of the constitutional plan, runs to the other States who have likewise accepted that plan, and to the United States as the sovereign which the Constitution creates.

The discursive debates on the 1795 Act cast little light upon the meaning of 'behaved', but indicate that the purpose of the requirement was to provide a probationary period during which aliens could learn of our Constitutional plan.

Yet Condorcet's constitutional plan, which came to be known as "La Girondine" in accordance with the majority of Girondin deputies who served on this committee (although Condorcet was not one), was never acted upon by the Convention.