Sentence examples for constitutional division from inspiring English sources

It can block radical reform, because the constitutional division of powers between president and prime minister is murky.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] and the stateSIR You describe how American courts have struggled to determine whether school vouchers violate the constitutional division of church and state (September 4th).

James Farrell Minneapolis, July 8, 2008 • To the Editor: James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher would have us believe that the constitutional division of war powers is ambiguous.

While political scientists and foreign-policy practitioners often criticize the constitutional division of power between the executive and legislative branches for causing excessive confusion, American foreign policy benefits from checks and balances.

If such a general rule or law is to be promulgated it would seem that under our constitutional division of governmental powers such a regulatory policy should be considered and determined by Congress under its exclusive grant.

That same American had "an instinctive sense that... excessive centralization means the threat of ultimate loss of personal liberties, and that our constitutional division of powers between the central government, the state governments and the people is right and must be preserved at all costs".

Thus, a legal analysis of EC trade policy in the pre-Amsterdam Treaty period, at the Treaty of Amsterdam, at the Treaty of Nice, and during the European Convention period, is provided, taking into account the most recent constitutional developments of division of competences between the EC and its Member States.

On 30 September 2005, the opposition People's Party decided to initiate a separate constitutional challenge, causing division within the party.

Two important variables that are relevant to implementation are the constitutional structure and division of legislative powers between national and regional parliaments; and secondly, the presence or absence of explicitly-recognised fundamental rights and freedoms within federal and state constitutions.

They failed to find solutions to the dire economic crisis and their fateful Constitutional Declaration led to division, fragmentation, civil strife, and violence, as well as the collapse of the rule of law".

"If you were sitting down today to work out a constitution for this country, you simply wouldn't have anything that remotely resembled the stupidity – and it is nothing less than the stupidity – of having a division of constitutional powers today based on those meanderings a couple of hundred years ago.