The California Constitution under Article XI section 5(a), the "home rule" provision, affirmatively grants charter cities supremacy over "municipal affairs". What that means is that a charter city can, among other things, contract out for services without Sacramento's interference.
The Founders were under the spell of Ancient Rome; they included a senate in the Constitution under Article 1, Section 3; and two hundred and twenty-six years later, we're stuck with it.
By The New Yorker November 9, 2013 "The Founders were under the spell of Ancient Rome; they included a senate in the Constitution under Article 1, Section 3; and two hundred and twenty-six years later, we're stuck with it".
In 2012 Williams secured a high court ruling that payments by the federal government to chaplain provider Scripture Union Queensland under the Darling Heights Funding Agreement were beyond the executive power of the commonwealth under section 61 of the Constitution.
Twomey, a constitutional law professor at the University of Sydney, said the federal government could strike agreements with state governments and fund chaplaincy "through grants to the states under section 96 of the constitution, often known as tied grants".
Indeed, there are other terms that fall within a "pre-war situation" under section 36 of the Constitution, such as "state of siege".
On December 23, the Federal Court declared Culleton bankrupt, which automatically removed him from his Senate seat under section 44 of the Constitution.
Legally, that makes it an "aboriginal right," which means that a hospital cannot force a member of an aboriginal group to undergo life-saving treatment because such rights are constitutionally protected under section 35 of the Constitution Act.
Recently, University of Winnipeg professor Lorena Fontaine and Toronto-based lawyer David Leitch announced their plans to launch a legal challenge that argues Indigenous peoples have the right to be taught in their own languages under section 35 of the Constitution.
Unless Siegelman filed an election contest in the courts, Pryor said, county canvassing boards throughout the state did not have the authority "to break the seals on ballots and machines under section 17-9-31" of the constitution.
