It's the greatest music and arts constitution in existence in Sydney (in my opinion) and the support the station gives to upcoming DJs/producers/artists/party collectives is phenomenal.
"Once a governing body chooses to fund art, however, the Constitution requires that it be funded in a viewpoint-neutral manner, that is, without discriminating among recipients on the basis of their ideology".
The USA is often given as example, since the two Senators from each state are not representing or selected by member unit (i.e. State) authorities but by electors voted directly by citizens though this is by member unit decision (U.S. Constitution Art. II Section 1; cf. Dahl 2001).
Example: Bush v. Gore highlighted Scalia's eagerness to flip-flop on his long-professed commitment to federalism and to, from the bench in DC, override a state supreme court ruling on a matter of state law (so specified by the U.S. Constitution Art II, Sec 1, Cl 2).
In the end, Jefferson was persuaded by Madison that a strictly limited copyright would indeed "promote the progress of science and the useful arts," as the Constitution was to proclaim.
Far from encouraging innovation and advancement in the "useful arts," as the Constitution originally envisioned and Congress wanted, software and business method patents have become a quasi-legal poison pill.
The powers of an NCMP are restricted in Art 39(2) of the Constitution: an NCMP cannot vote on a bill to amend the Constitution; a supply, supplementary supply or final supply bill; a money bill; a vote of no confidence in the Government; or a motion for removing the President from office.
The judge's published reasoning is an exemplary legal discussion of art, society and the constitution.
"But our lawyer and the Swiss constitution says art in the public interest is allowed to be free".
And because they have been steeled in the art of efficiency their constitution allows them to scale everything to suit the remaining demand.
In a 2005 judgment, the High Court expressed the view that the phrase necessary or expedient confers upon Parliament "an extremely wide discretionary power and remit that permits a multifarious and multifaceted approach towards achieving any of the purposes specified in Art 14(2) of the Constitution".
