The court, without settling the case on its merits, ruled that the balance of power between Congress and the president in foreign policy was not inherently beyond the reach of judicial review.
The following day the constitutional court, which had earlier ruled that Mr Basescu's misdemeanours were not sufficient to merit impeachment, ruled that the impeachment proceedings were legal.
It ultimately decided the issue was not significant enough to merit a rule change.
This is why New York has become, in effect, a permanent film festival — why the exceptional screening has become, for many foreign and independent films of great merit, the rule, and why events such as BAMcinemaFEST and the first edition of the upcoming La Di Da Film Festival (at 92Y Tribeca) are crucial supplements to the New York Film Festival.
But he said that they would not sacrifice principles of advancement based on merit, the rule of law, and honesty.
He believed firmly in the value of a social and political hierarchy, the importance of maintaining class differences between people.[36] Class differences were in his view both desirable and inevitable: desirable, because they allow merit to rule; and inevitable, because people have more or less merit or talent according to circumstances, temperament and birth.
According to this hypothesis (one that must be rejected), because it is Socrates (not Plato) who is critical of democracy in Republic, and because it is the Athenian visitor (not Plato) who recognizes the merits of rule by the many in Laws, there is no possibility that the two dialogues are in tension with each other.
Recent Chinese legal scholarship has also debated topics in the domains of intellectual property, trade, and investment, along with the relative merits of rule of law in accordance with international standards.
The merit of these rules is another matter.
The court did not assess the merits of the rules as health policy.
