Sentence examples for its basic law from inspiring English sources
The euro crisis is pushing Germany to test the limits of its "Basic Law".
The territory enjoys some autonomy under its Basic Law, which provides for a separate legal system and considerable autonomy in running its own affairs.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] – Your article on a new Hungarian constitution ("Goulash soup", April 9th) emphasised the need for the country to renew its basic law as the old one was a legal mishmash, partly inherited from the communist era.
The occasion for his statement was an arguably superfluous UNESCO resolution, from early May, "reaffirming the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions" and "reminding" the world that Israel is the "occupying Power" — that its "basic law" annexing the eastern part of Jerusalem should be considered "null and void".
Instead, its basic law was governed by the Doctrine of the Holy Crown (Szentkorona-tan), a complex tradition that underlies Hungary's historical, unwritten constitution until the 1947 Soviet-drafted constitution.
Germany has never held a national referendum, as the German Constitution allows a national plebiscite only as a necessity to alter its basic laws, which have not been changed since after World War II.
Political loyalty is devotion to, and identification with, a political cause or a political community, its institutions, basic laws, major political ideas, and general policy objectives.
It is basic law that a court has the power to interpret its own orders.
It's basic law enforcement.
"As the basic law, its guarantees cannot, and will not, be diminished or reduced by any law passed by Congress".
For a breather from such oppressive strictures, one might hop across the border to Hong Kong, where the policy of "one country, two systems" guarantees the freedom of speech and of the press, under the former British colony's Basic Law, its own mini-Constitution.
