A central feature of any constitution is the organization of the legislature.
He said plebiscites were not a feature of the constitution and had not been used since the early 1900s, with the exception of a vote on the national anthem.
He epitomises the very feature of the constitution that the meritocrats of New Labour find repugnant, namely that under Britain's present arrangements people like the Cecils are still born to rule.This is, after all, a very old dynasty.
Jefferson's ideal of sociability in the new republic was, according to Gary Wills, influenced by Hutcheson; Madison learned a great deal from both Hume's political theories and Smith's "invisible hand"; Hamilton knew "The Wealth of Nations" backward and forward; and all three campaigned successfully to make the separation of church and state a feature of the Constitution.
Decentralization is a major feature of its constitution, which allows local churches to develop their own policies.
A feature of the Constitution which was designed to forestall the rise of Leviathan in a different time and place has been transformed by modern day right wing politicians into the helpmate of the 21st century Leviathan that actually reigns, largely unchecked, on the banks of the Potomac.
In the High Court case of Teo Soh Lung v. Minister for Home Affairs (1989), the plaintiff argued that the 1989 amendments to the Constitution had violated the basic features of the Constitution by breaching the principle of separation of powers by usurping judicial power, and contravening the rule of law.
It is an eccentrically British feature of the unwritten constitution that the overarching philosophy of one of its cornerstones (a head of state elevated by birth rather than merit) is to be found not in ancient manuscripts but in the writings of a motley crew of journalists and screenwriters.
Perhaps causation in intrinsically symmetric, but some feature of our psychological constitution and relation to the world makes causation appear asymmetric.
Two features of constitutional democracy require emphasis in contrasting it with modern totalitarian government: the constitution, or basic law, and the political party.
ASociology of Constitutions: Constitutional and State Legitimacy inHistorical-Sociological Perspective.
