Sentence examples for basic constitutional principles from inspiring English sources

The Act formulated the basic constitutional principles that were and still are followed by all Constitutions of Lithuania.

The bill violated basic constitutional principles and was unfair to MPs themselves.

This is contrary to settled law and the most basic constitutional principles of the separation of powers".

New civil society groups staged demonstrations this past weekend in defense of both basic constitutional principles and the Constitutional Court.

In addition, the Fourth Amendment blocks the Constitutional Court from reviewing amendments for substantive conflicts with basic constitutional principles.

This warps our politics, it violates basic constitutional principles of political equality, and it's only getting worse.

Scalia was clearly angry at the president for violating a basic constitutional principle, to be sure.

And, since the Spano decision, the same basic constitutional principle has been broadly reaffirmed by this Court.

To focus the argument on the basic constitutional principle of parliamentary sovereignty, and to respond to the powerful advocacy of James Eadie, QC, for the government, who sought to deflect the argument on to other issues.

These discrepancies violate the basic constitutional principle of one-person-one-vote, causing voters to be unequally represented in the chamber that was designed to offset the Senate, where every state gets two seats regardless of population.

Mr Wright said: "It should be a basic constitutional principle that ministers would be required to explain to parliament where their powers come from and how they intend to use them". The committee is looking at proposals for an act which would force ministers to seek authorisation from parliament before they exercised some of the powers, which were "sometimes in effect powers of life and death".