Two Cheers for "Bad Ideas" A balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, instant replay for disputed calls by umpires during the World Series, Netflix's new subscription plans and higher rates: these and other notions recently in the news have something in common.
Copies of the draft were sent to all town councils, and the vast majority voted in favor of its instant adoption as the Constitution of the Empire.
The selection process is defined in the WSFS constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie.
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
For some Americans, including a few in the business of providing instant analysis of Russian affairs for the talk shows, Yeltsin's bypassing of the constitution in closing the Parliament, was a violation of democratic principles.
This means that Mr. Trump will be in violation of the spirit, and arguably the letter, of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bars gifts or profits from foreign leaders, the instant he recites the oath of office.
Following changes to the Constitution and election laws, campaigning is now permitted throughout cyberspace — in podcasts, videos, blogs, instant messaging, photo-sharing platforms like Flickr, social networking sites and electronic media applications like those on cellphones.
Living in New York, I have myself, now and then, acknowledged a hankering for the barbecue of my youth, in Kansas City, Missouri; if I knew anything about constitutions and Kansas City happened to need one, I would be available in an instant.
Republican state senator Damon Thayer asked for an opinion as to whether Instant Racing – allowing individuals to bet on the outcome of previously run horse races – would be allowable under the state constitution.
South Africa's revolution, wrote the author Njabulo S. Ndebele, "may itself have become corrupted by the attractions of instant wealth," reflecting "a potentially catastrophic collapse in the once cohesive understanding of the post-apartheid project as embodied in our constitution".
